| 单词 | paradox |
| 例句 | She’s gesturing with her hands, talking about researchers at MIT and probability bending to prevent paradoxes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is unwilling to accept his past. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Another paradox lies in the physics of the sport. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The philosophers of his day were unable to refute the paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So herein lies the paradox and predicament of young black men labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps the paradox can be resolved by imagining two or more nearly simultaneous Big Bangs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, in consequence, there are infinite habitable worlds; what hinders? ... these and suchlike insolent and bold attempts, prodigious paradoxes, inferences must needs follow, if it once be granted which ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the so-called twins paradox mentioned in Chapter 2. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you familiar with Zeno’s tortoise paradox?” he asked me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It is the infinite that lies at the heart of Zeno’s paradox: Zeno had taken continuous motion and divided it into an infinite number of tiny steps. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes! We will feign love to hide love. This is a paradox I will act with pleasure,” said Hamlet, leaning in to kiss my throat, where my heartbeat was visible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I write out a whole list of other paradoxes until I come to the one I most want to argue. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Zeno’s troubling paradox was explained away by banishing infinity and zero from the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His body is a paradox of mass and lightness, crafted to slip through air with the ease of an arrow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But that conclusion presents a paradox: such diseases could never have existed before then! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one’s mind. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep within the scientific world’s powerful new tool—calculus—was a paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To understand the answer to this paradox, we have to remember that, until 400 B.C., the frontier of Tsushima Strait separated not rich farmers from poor hunter-gatherers but poor farmers from rich hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest paradox concerned his feelings about money. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This, dear friend, was the paradox of my life. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real “labor shortage,” only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your Handdara fascinates me, Harth, but now and then I wonder if it isn’t simply paradox developed into a way of life....” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On Tuesday in humanities we learn about Socratic paradoxes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Zeno really did believe that motion was impossible, and his paradox was this theory's chief support. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But if we examine the possible two-man races, a paradox appears. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a shocking conclusion, but the indivisible kernels of matter in atomic theory got around the problem of Zeno’s paradoxes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There are many versions of this paradox but they are essentially equivalent: one would get contradictions if one were free to change the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank saw that the paradox vanished if crystals were not as regular as suspected, but contained dislocations resulting in the perpetual presence of cozy corners into which new molecules could fit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “It is a paradox. And it is uncomfortable. To go back to the instrument from Bologna for a moment: presumably it’s really a possession of Bologna University?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He seemed to absorb the baffling paradoxes of quantum theory with ease. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That paradox developed because human population densities rose slightly more steeply than did the availability of food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean? What paradox? Being human and godsp—” Lazlo couldn’t bring himself to call her spawn, even if she called herself that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There seem to be two possible resolutions to the paradoxes posed by time travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge, in combination with chunking and functional fixity, helps make sense of the paradox that classic style is difficult to master. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a paradox nothing could resolve but a murderous snicker. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we can resolve this seeming paradox once we understand what artists mean by “public.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me about this paradox,” I prod, trying to distract her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This was what his father had taught him: the greater the composure, the more revealed one was, the truth of one’s inner life was manifest—a pleasing paradox. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But there is a fundamental paradox in the search for such a complete unified theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I pondered this paradox as I lay at night upon my narrow, solitary bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She’d talked of the paradox at the core of her being, and the curse of knowing one’s enemies too well to be able to hate them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If the world is to be understood, if we are to avoid such logical paradoxes when traveling at high speeds, there are some rules, commandments of Nature, that must be obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The other possible way to resolve the paradoxes of time travel might be called the alternative histories hypothesis. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Combine the long-range and short-range perspectives and the result becomes the central paradox of the revolutionary era, which was also the apparently intractable dilemma facing the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Physicists were forced to confront astonishing paradoxes roiling their conception of the natural world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You might even be able to track down your mother and kill her before she meets your father, preventing you from being born and causing a terrible paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Greece would defeat the Persians; Greek philosophy would never quite defeat Zeno—for Zeno had a paradox, a logical puzzle that seemed intractable to the reasoning of Greek philosophers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s a bit like the old paradox: can God make a stone so heavy that he can’t lift it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A paradox lies at the heart of this new American meritocracy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She told Lazlo, “I feel a little like him sometimes, the love and hate side by side. It’s not easy having a paradox at the core of one’s own being.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But the life of a class at the top of the bottom can be, and more often than not is, subject to irony, paradox, and the crisis of compromise. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “The very strange situation was that by coming nearer and nearer to the solution,” reflected the promising young German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, “the paradoxes became worse and worse.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a paradox, and Bull Meecham could take anything with more equanimity than paradox. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A zero in the other great modern theory—relativity—creates another paradox: the infinite nothing of the black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Anyway, our final assignment for the unit is to create our own paradox and be ready to argue it Socrates-style. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Scientists dealt with this paradox in the handiest possible way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He demonstrated the exercises of the great acting teacher Stanislavsky, he imitated Charlie Chaplin’s funny walk, and when he was reading about calculus, he explained Zeno’s paradox and the infinite series. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowing is, in a number of ways, a sport of fundamental paradoxes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I marveled at the paradox implied by their writings. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It appeared to me increasingly paradoxical, and it has been my experience that when paradox crops up too often for comfort, it means that certain factors are missing in the equation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want all paradoxes on my desk by Friday,” Ms. Steck says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the greatest paradox of the sport has to do with the psychological makeup of the people who pull the oars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She scribbles a little, and I look in my notebook at my paradox that I already sent to Ms. Steck via e-mail. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Therein lies the paradox of the profession,” Faraday said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I stare at the blinking cursor on the computer screen, and I type in my paradox and hit Send. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These paradoxes hint that China too was once diverse, as all other populous nations still are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some are still struggling with their paradox, and they summon Ms. Steck to their desks or to the computer lab. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z A wormhole is a paradox caused by a zero in the equations of general relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For us, looking back at these events and trying to understand them, there is a frustrating paradox at work here. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And, by an unforeseeable paradox, it was my career in the church that turned out, precisely, to be my gimmick. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I have a small sign with my paradox on it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We eat lunch at a special table in the cafeteria, and when we’re done eating, we are allowed to roam the caf and talk about our paradoxes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I haven’t figured out my paradox yet, but I have a month, so I’m not going to push it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet Zeno’s paradox was so powerful that the Greeks tried over and over to explain away his infinities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zeno himself didn’t have a proper solution to the paradox, nor did he seek one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The paradox of all this attention was that many of the turf writers who covered Seabiscuit knew next to nothing about horses and racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So a Socratic paradox is about something that probably isn’t true, but you make it sound true?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We’d be able to explain to them everything we know—from the adventures of Alice in Wonderland to the paradoxes of quantum physics—and they could teach us how their people view the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, Penelope had never before realized how difficult it was to explain the logic behind such common household paradoxes as: Standing on the floor is perfectly correct; standing upon the loveseat is not. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The theory neatly solves the grandfather paradox by positing separate universes in which each possible outcome exists, thereby avoiding a paradox. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In humanities class, people are starting to freak out and second-guess their paradoxes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Lee asked, “How does Mrs. Hamilton feel about the paradoxes of the Bible?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The resolution to the paradox—that a bad thing, dying, implies a good thing, having lived—is explained with parallel constructions: never going to die... never going to be born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And by rejecting zero and infinity, Aristotle explained away Zeno’s paradoxes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Solving this paradox quickly became the leading puzzle in physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Kill Move Paradise” resonantly locates the unspeakable pain of that paradox. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Multimedia slide shows and short films illustrate the paradoxes and cultural divides. ArtsBeat: In Paris, an Exhibition Dedicated to Hair 2012-09-25T19:04:21Z It’s the visual fulfillment of the long-standing paradox that Allen distilled in the “Annie Hall” joke: “The food at this place is terrible.” The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Such paradoxes pervade the couple’s work, as the architects experiment with new ways to do more with less and challenge the conventions of eco-friendliness. AD Innovators: SelgasCano 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Nowhere are Kadyrov’s paradoxes more evident than on his Instagram account, which he uses as a medium to showcase the many sides of his personality to his more than a million and a half followers. The Putin of Chechnya Shows His Colors on Instagram 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But — here’s a paradox — he does not want to force her. Review | At Olney Theatre, steady laughs in ‘Fickle,’ a new reboot of classic French farce 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z For Jones, a scholar of the ’60s, the letters illustrate the paradox of an era defined in popular memory by a countercultural ethos that didn’t penetrate very deeply into society. An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It is one of the embittering paradoxes of gentrification that as money flows in, history, an asset of incalculable value, is swept away. ‘Funk, God, Jazz & Medicine,’ Black Heritage in Brooklyn 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The real paradox of Iamus is why it's being used to attempt to fool humanity in this way. Iamus's Hello World! – review 2012-07-01T21:19:06Z It is a paradox, and it is undemocratic. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z That paradox was made more explicit this week. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Byron also embodied a masculine ideal defined by paradoxes. Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z But there’s a high paradox at work here. Motherlode: Too Much Sharing of Feelings With Kids? 2011-03-17T15:05:01Z The album is summed up in “Forever Now,” a musically meticulous barrage of paradoxes that insists, “If this is what you call the good life/I want a better way to die.” Review: ‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z All this, yet there is no apparent correlation between Ms. Hudson’s style-world allure and her box-office pull, a mystifying paradox that underlies her popularity. Her Films May Flop, but Kate Hudson Remains a Fashion Star 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Like Mr Frank, Ms Hochschild is concerned chiefly with what she calls the “great paradox” of ordinary, hard-working Americans seemingly voting against their own economic interests by supporting small-state Republican politicians. Hand on heart 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This paradox was illustrated in his own life, as shown in his video project, Diary, intercut between his experiences on the front line, and his alienated time in England. On the front line: a documentary tribute to Tim Hetherington 2013-01-29T11:25:02Z One of the richer paradoxes of the cocktail world is that, for all their Hawaiian shirts and beach-bum bonhomie, tiki aficionados are among the most doctrinaire pedants you’ll find in any bar. A Book Adds Rigor to the Laid-Back World of Tiki Cocktails 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Self-portraiture is an exercise at once traditional, going back to Dürer and Rembrandt, and modern, speaking directly to the paradoxes and uncertainties of identity in a changing world. Frida Kahlo's birthday presence: a Google doodle tribute 2010-07-06T13:25:00Z It is a sad paradox, but perhaps not surprising, that some of humanity’s greatest writing has been born in times of turmoil. Perspective | Writers of the past turned suffering into literary masterpieces. They might help us understand how to meet the challenges of our day. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But here is the paradox: greater control equals less – if any – planning. Courting the cat: how to hold a theatre to attention 2013-01-02T18:17:00Z This jaunty but thoughtful production uses paradox to capture a paradoxical work. | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View 2010-08-31T21:10:00Z I don’t think too much about the possibility of time-travel paradoxes. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z He was his generation’s greatest practitioner of that gentle paradox, the elegiac comedy, which considered the passing of the civilization he grew up in. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z A willingness to abandon certainty in the theater and to embrace mystery and paradox, earthy British slang and allusive poetry, are also essential. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z Or with figuring out that not all paradoxes have to be paralysing. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z This understanding of unity — pursued, in a seeming paradox, through open-ended individual expression — is at the heart of Mr. Braxton’s work. High School Musicians Take on the (Almost) Unplayable 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z It was my attempt to criticise Zeno's paradoxes of motion, and display the pace of life around me – a sensation evident throughout both Korea and the Biennale. Red wine and doughnuts at the Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea 2012-10-29T10:00:00Z Bella is different, special, and the great paradox of American life is that everyone else believes they are too. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z And it’s this paradox that looms large in these new novels, each of which suggests the extraordinary complexity of negotiating this tension between individuality and community. Surviving, and Thriving, in Middle School Hell? Three New Novels Say It’s Possible 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The paradox is that they accomplish all of this without being especially interesting. Movie Review: Lynn Shelton’s ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ 2012-06-14T21:38:38Z Again, there's a paradox in that the rebellious punks could have inspired all the politically correct slogans that remind us to "reduce, reuse and recycle." Punk finds its place in hallowed halls of Met 2013-05-07T18:03:17Z But reviving “Gigi” in 2015 is a challenge for another reason: the paradox that Americans are, more than fifty years on, after a revolution in mores, less prudish yet more moralistic than their parents. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z That one rug can contain so many paradoxes — distant and domestic, machine-made and artisan, memory and history — is indeed a wonder. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Rand later explained to me that he saw a paradox between the need to maintain these sites of horror and the mandate to keep them clean and beautiful. [Paul] Randisms 2012-06-19T00:00:00Z What we said: “A documentary with an absorbing and unexpectedly complicated story to tell, whose paradoxes and sadnesses are not entirely resolved by the end.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It's a huge paradox, but also works together. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Surely it’s enough to expose with overwhelming comic energy the contradictions and paradoxes of “mutual assured destruction.” The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s a painful paradox for a group of people who have long fought for visibility: Suddenly a pandemic forces them into isolation. What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z An awareness of this paradox — of children representing both hope and loss — suffuses her novel. A Haunting Debut Novel Brings New Faces to the Myth of the American West 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Like Casement, he's also a tangle of paradoxes. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z That very paradox forms the heart of “What is so funny?” Break Out the Chewbacca Mask and You Won’t Laugh Alone 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z But the company itself presented a paradox: on the one hand it was manufactured in the US by workers who were paid well; on the other, its advertising featured young women in absurdly provocative poses. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Yet there was still an “I” observing this seeming catastrophe, a paradox I couldn’t explain but needed to address. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z In Sag Harbor, you talk about the paradox in the world’s eyes of “black boys with beach houses.” 6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of The Underground Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I recognize the paradox, and I’m not encouraging everyone to go to 52 places in 52 weeks. Midway Through His Year, Our 52 Places Traveler Answers Readers’ Questions 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z This is not such a paradox, however, if we see that imaginary food—whether onscreen or on the page—is feeding separate hungers. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z As Frank Rich noted in his 1971 Harvard Crimson review, it’s “a musical about the death of the musical” — a wonderful paradox but one that undermines the experience. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z But for many stations, the pledge drive has become a brand-identity paradox. ‘Elmo Knows Where You Live’: A History of the PBS Pledge Drive 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Tasting such exquisite food coming off the hearth is to experience a joyous paradox of the ancient past meeting its evolving future. At Saison, the hearth’s fire and smoke set the beat for the kitchen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Above all, the movie confronts a political and historical paradox that exerts its distorting force in French laws and mores: the illusion of color blindness that’s central to the French national self-image. “Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z As the late scholar Shahab Ahmed writes in his book “What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic,” the “historical and human phenomenon that is Islam” for centuries tolerated contradiction and paradox. How Did Rumi Become One of Our Best-Selling Poets? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Well, they’ve made a very hip record full of useful paradoxes. Playlist: New Music by Jason Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer and Wax Idols 2011-12-09T22:16:57Z Morality matters, if defined less as self-righteous ardor and more as self-awareness of a leader’s effect on those around him and an appreciation of paradox. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The abundance of independent music celebrated by CMJ is awash in paradoxes. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z In this broader context, Egan nimbly explores two of the central paradoxes inherent in the keeping of secrets. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The paradox is, looking back at the clothes he made, the quality that most comes to mind is timeless. A Designer’s Suicide and the Clothes He Left Behind 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In Pursuit of a Long-Distance Romance, Abandoned Long Ago “Letters to Juliet” represents an interesting paradox: it is a movie that is very nearly perfect without being especially good. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z But the bracing paradox of the evening is a play that knows its questing characters down to their “Noo Yawk” core, and a production that understands them every step of the amusing yet tremulous way. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z This weekend the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective is sponsoring Creative Commons, a “transmedia literary festival” that explores this paradox. Weekend Miser: Literary Festival by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective 2012-11-29T21:20:46Z Mr. Morrison’s film is founded on an enduring paradox: that decay produces its own kind of beauty, and even functions as a kind of creation. ‘Decasia,’ Celebration of Decay, From Icarus Films 2012-12-21T20:58:44Z “It’s a paradox. He uses his head to find the heat — the passions and the pain of his characters — but he’s tamed his head enough to play.” He’s Playing Rupert Murdoch as More Than a ‘Pantomime Villain’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps, in "How Snow Falls," we are similarly being shown something familiar becoming "unrecognisably itself," and the verbal paradox enacts the process. Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z It was part of Chekhov’s genius to elicit this paradox from the environment where we feel both most comfortable, most trapped and most vulnerable: the place we call home. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z She mandated that things that occur in the book could only happen once and couldn't be changed, eliminating "paradox and the butterfly effect, which are always a challenge for any writer of time travel stories." 8 fascinating facts about "The Time Traveler's Wife" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z There's a metaphysical touch of paradox in the notion of becoming "whole as a half" but, although wholeness is obviously desirable, the poem doesn't quite celebrate the potentiality. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z A persistent paradox of the design fair is the creation of so much stuff in a world overburdened with waste. The Most Wondrous Things at the Milan Furniture Fair 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z We kept her exposed and tapped into the paradox of her being sincerely opaque, a mother who would go to an unexpected emotional place. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z But a central paradox of “Lear,” one that English teachers are fond of explaining, is that out of blindness comes illumination. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z These are invigorating words, although Caplan pinpoints an inherent paradox: Brooks’s poem is “art sending the message that it is not yet time for art.” Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z "There's a chapter in the book that begins 'All truth is paradox' and it’s true that these are the darkest, most devastating times," Lamott said. Anne Lamott can still find hope, even though “the nation has hit a tragic bottom” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Yet the people of Vanuatu, having experienced repeated upheavals and colonizations, might have glimpsed in that very paradox an expanded sense of possibility. A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z A charming, earnest, sometimes ungainly mixture of history, criticism and high-minded gossip, “Notfilm” testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Most time-travel movies work hard at trying to deal with the paradoxes that result from their central premise. 5 Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Lea Carpenter’s “Eleven Days” is an utter paradox. Books of The Times: ‘Eleven Days,’ by Lea Carpenter, Is a Mother-Son Story 2013-06-12T21:25:32Z There is a paradox to it: I believe that medication is absolutely necessary, but necessary to start you on a journey towards ridding yourself of medication. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z But in this moment there is also a profound paradox. Author Tom Nichols on how Trump won: “People looked up from their phones and said, ‘Where’s my money?'” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a really volatile subject: the paradox of two people fighting violently and emotionally over something that should be beautiful and life-enhancing,” he explained. He’s the Producer. She’s the Talent. Who Owns the Hit Record? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z This beauty taboo creates a paradox: “We must strive toward beauty while never being able to comfortably, openly claim it as our own.” The Hidden Benefits of Not Taking a Compliment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The paradox of placing these works within the art world at all has roots in the controversy surrounding the legitimacy of Dada and Art Brut in past decades. Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame) 2010-09-02T22:25:00Z There was a paradox at the heart of the theory, however. Magic Mike turned me gay! 2012-07-06T13:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” franchise is how small a role sex plays. ‘Virgin Territory,’ About Celibate Youth, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “And So It Goes” also traces the paradoxes in Vonnegut’s personal life. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z His remarks and his choice of material revealed a fascination with paradoxes and riddles. Music Review: Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret at 54 Below 2012-08-06T22:54:10Z And here is the pivotal paradox of the series. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z But is her trajectory from a good celebrity to dress to a serious creative a new paradigm or a paradox? The Lessons of Rihanna 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Alone among the great performers, he resolved a paradox: how to be a star without being the center of attention—or, at least, while giving no sign that you crave such a prominent spot. Anthony Lane: Celebrating Alec Guinness’s Centenary, at Film Forum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z That paradox runs like a wire through this book, which so poignantly expresses the loneliness of pining for one’s own homeland. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The potential for controversy in sales from public collections is exacerbated by the publicity paradox at the heart of deaccessioning. Perspective | When art museums got a green light to sell their art, Sotheby’s and Christie’s came running 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Another variety of paradox is given voice to in “The Secret Commonwealth.” The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Frenkel was alert to these kinds of paradoxes, which she encountered often. Her Francophilia Saved Her From the Death Camps, but Not From Great Danger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “He's bombastic and ambitious and thuggish, but he's also very vulnerable and kind of fragile. He's a psychological sort of paradox.” What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The “paradoxical” fat deposits she cites in her suit are not the crucial paradox here. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z One last thing occurred to me about “Dark Hope” and the endless crossover paradoxes. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z “Pope.L sees the paradox of this abjection happening in the context of Greenwich Village,” said Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund. Pope.L’s Group Crawl: Protest, Pathos, Provocation 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Moriarty: The fact that she is a walking paradox made her so interesting to me. "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Snow’s work was often based on the paradox of two-dimensional representation and sometimes demanded a physical or psychological shift in the viewer’s position. Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z When you put a camera and a film crew into a room, the observer’s paradox is almost always true – you can’t capture life because you’re in the way of it. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Obituaries are a paradox of sorts, a distraction toward meaningfulness, a diversion to what really matters. Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s no paradox but, rather, a natural state of affairs that, in times of turmoil, political as well as industrial, filmmakers make movies of a bold originality and a confrontational fury. The Fossilized 2020 Oscar Nominations 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “Evicted” is filled with such infuriating paradoxes and demon’s loops. Review: In ‘Evicted,’ Home Is an Elusive Goal for America’s Poor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z I can also play on a paradox: rendering this individual funny although he behaves in an appalling way, also showing him prone to deep depressions because of his internal conflicts. “Batman v Superman” Is Democrats vs. Republicans 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z They include “working with a paradox” and “seeing in new ways.” Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Those bedroom scenes have an authentic charge that pulses naturally with the paradoxes of his characters. Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ on One Man’s Ceiling, and His Frustrations 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z “No” is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z But both versions capture several essential paradoxes about Ms. Brown’s style. Trisha Brown’s Work Recalled in Governors Island Exhibition 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z And this is a movie about someone who finally comes to terms with a paradox. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: James Lipton 2012-02-15T19:11:11Z That’s a rich paradox for the current show’s viewers to mull over. Art in Review: ‘The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980’ 2014-04-17T19:10:50Z Questions: So, what’s behind this episode’s title, “The Crocodile’s Dilemma,” the paradox about the crocodile and the parent? ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Making Way for Marge and Lester 2014-04-16T16:19:16Z It’s hard to miss the paradox in this. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z The film exposes the paradox at the heart of a country better known around the world for its technological prowess and pop music. Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Writing in 1982, Bach was forecasting one of the stranger paradoxes of the modern blockbuster era: even the failures are blockbuster events. Zombie epic World War Z – another blockbuster turkey that refuses to die 2013-06-20T13:00:00Z The paradox of great factual work is that it restores wonder. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z It is a podium paradox that an attempt at overcontrol often results in a loss of control. Review: Trifonov Caps Rachmaninoff Fest With Pianistic Verve 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Death is part of life—the paradox felt in our bones but also in the best of our lines, which are, in some deep sense, written under a sentence of death. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z There’s plenty of fascinating paradox in this book. Books of The Times: ‘Where the Heart Beats,’ John Cage Biography, by Kay Larson 2012-07-22T21:59:58Z The other Bran theory – that due to the same sort of time-travelling paradox that created Hodor, Bran could be the ancient figure Bran the Builder – could still come true. Is Arya Death? The questions we need answered in Game of Thrones 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z This is the ultimate paradox for a writer with such a gift. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z “I felt like he saw me as a vast paradox,” she said of McQueen. Steve McQueen and Viola Davis on Hollywood, Race and Power 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z That disaster kept a precious few bronzes from destruction "is the utter paradox" that underlies the show, said Daehner, an affable, soft-spoken German. The paradox of 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty: Disasters rescued these ancient bronzes 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The weaving of antithetical statements into paradox is masterly: the effect is neither playful nor literary but reveals the profound contradictions implicit in the human condition. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z Shakespeare is even braver than Chaucer in invoking this paradox, for he sometimes has his characters themselves deliver the envoi. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z As daily life becomes increasingly virtual, it might seem like a paradox that making things by hand is suddenly big business. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The Italian countryside Photograph: Files/EPA Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna" is a study in paradox. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z In the department of unintended paradox, however, one of the most heralded recent original TV series on Netflix is “Stranger Things.” Why Netflix Lets Movie Lovers Down, and What to Do About It 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z There is a lovely passage in “Hotel Savoy” in which Gabriel Dan muses on this architectural paradox: The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z The paradox of aggressively pursuing intimacy and discovering the idiosyncratic chaos inside everyday people runs to the heart of “Twelve Thirty.” | 'Twelve Thirty': In States of Undress, Mental and Physical 2011-01-14T00:17:47Z He clearly adores his mother and respects her as a subject, even when his devotion ensnares them both in a paradox. ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ Review: Son’s View of a Model Parent 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “This paradox inside his work, at the same time beautiful and violent, is what interested me.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z Sterling Hyltin polished every detail in the title role and mastered all the paradoxes of a supernatural creature. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But true to the rest of the St. Vincent catalog — this is her fifth solo studio album — “Masseduction” stays poised between passion and artifice, trusting listeners to decrypt its paradoxes. St. Vincent Makes Her Move Into Pop With ‘Masseduction’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Still, the exchange points to the paradox at the heart of dealing with the troll, which the characters on the show openly debate. "Mrs. America" captures the birth of the modern day right-wing troll 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the context of this show, her name starts to look less like a mistake and more like a delightful paradox; she is a slave to no one, except maybe the muse. Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca’ Comes to the Frick 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z To demonstrate that classic American paradox: impossibly distant horizons set against close, low-ceilinged cabins. Iain Sinclair: 70x70 – an autobiographical journey in film 2013-07-16T15:23:41Z Mortality looms everywhere in Nick Cave’s extensive song catalog: as tragedy, retribution, gallows humor, test of faith and moral paradox. Feist and Nick Cave Exorcise Different Kinds of Demons 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z He is looking for ways to do more, “but we can’t get too big, because I can’t put too many people in the kitchen. There are these new paradoxes.” New Orleans Restaurants, Used to Disasters, Reckon With Something Worse 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z All of this has made "Boyhood" something of an awards-season paradox: the underdog front-runner. The 'Boyhood' awards season campaign comes of age, delicately 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z As serpents strangle an agonized priest and his writhing sons, a bravura paradox emerges: Ideal beauty is embedded in a sculptural ensemble of suffering and death. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But in doing so, he also cautioned, “we are reinventing her posthumously as a star and making her into such a heroine that her paradoxes are being obscured.” Latin American Design and Architecture Through the Years 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z At its most fun, it prompts even more: Will any writer ever figure out time-loop paradoxes? Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Freddie is a lot of things and, like everybody, full of paradoxes and contradictions. For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Yet each of the play’s chapters has moments that are classic Ayckbourn in their comic sadness, reminding us of this playwright’s affinity for the modern theater’s greatest psychologist of the human paradox, Anton Chekhov. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z For him to have ventured forth late in life from his literary safe haven to write “The Leopard” is a story as improbable — and at times fascinating — as the historical paradoxes of his masterpiece. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “The paradox of wanting to save the women and children of Iraq and kill someone in order to do that wasn’t lost on me by any means,” Ms. Bakos says. Television Review: ‘Manhunt’ for Bin Laden, on HBO 2013-04-30T20:10:13Z The paradox of dramatising mental chaos is that it requires great narrative discipline, and for all Mullan's commendable efforts, The Fear was a sorry mess. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z He was a paradox in spectacles, an exacting presence who helped to produce inexact outcomes. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Ponder the paradox: Television’s most acclaimed scripted series are praised for their ever-deepening characters, yet some of its longest-running shows feature characters who, by many measures, evolve barely, if at all. ‘Archer’ Knocks at the Door of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘South Park’ 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The healing that finally arrives is fraught with pain and paradox, but no less welcome and remarkable. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The paradox of this film is that it is both unremittingly bleak and rigorously humane. | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z Each of these factors hints at the paradox of Murphy's public persona, the entertainment mogul who also wants to change the way Hollywood has long operated and thinks. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z This paradox brings to mind that even brutal art has its moment of transcendence. ‘Trishna,’ From Michael Winterbottom, Starring Freida Pinto 2012-07-12T20:56:57Z This paradox was taken further by Arlene Croce in a 1974 review in “The New Yorker” when, discussing the illusion created by ballet, she wrote, “The arabesque is real, the leg is not.” Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z This paradox is the starting point of the poet Elisa Gabbert’s new collection of thematically linked essays, “The Unreality of Memory.” Disaster May Upend Reality, but What Is ‘Real’ Anyway? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z What Fukuyama repeatedly refers to as liberalism’s “essence” has also, Elkins suggests, amounted to a paradox: emancipation and oppression, all rolled in one. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z These photographs selected from the archives of The New York Times — spanning the middle and later decades of the last century — illustrate that wonderful temporal paradox. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “The paradox is that when I talk about myself,” he writes, “I forget myself.” Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z I suspect that, for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the public reconciliation of certain paradoxes is impossible in part because it’s founded on one: the institutionalization of an inherently lawless and scrappy tradition. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is Still Alive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z With time, Ekong becomes attuned to an intriguing paradox of his host country. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox that Casey’s novel, which is a triumph of style over story, extols the centrality of storytelling to human connectedness. ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The very title of “The Image Book” embodies the paradox of his career. “The Image Book,” Reviewed: Jean-Luc Godard Confronts Cinema’s Depiction of the Arab World 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Khedoori starts with a primary paradox of art, in which an image is also an object. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s a worthy paradox that the academy’s broadcast revolves around live — not recorded— music. At the Grammys, Big Voices, Pretty Faces and Bitter Truths 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z There’s no indulging it that doesn’t leave you struggling with a paradox: It is not sufficient, in itself, to make the world a better place, yet the world would be far worse without it. Perspective | Glenstone opened as a connoisseur’s delight. It’s reopening as an oasis for everyone. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The success of the school lies in a paradox: a camplike enclave tucked away in the green hills, offering world-class instruction and facilities. Pilchuck at 40: world-class glass 2011-08-26T23:49:50Z Ke$ha: My live show is definitely a bit of a paradox. Ke$ha is Billboard's Hot 100 artist of the year 2010-12-10T23:59:00Z During her first run for President, she often said, “I may be the most famous person you don’t really know,” a paradox that hasn’t gone away. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z A decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, Ayad Akhtar staged a play called “Disgraced” that captured the paradox of being an American of Muslim descent. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z It is a favourite paradox for critics writing on Chesterton that despite his contempt for the fin de siècle, he was imbued with the spirit of the decade that he professed to hate. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z The most memorable moments of the year in comedy were not funny, which is only one of the seeming paradoxes of 2017. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z No one understands that paradox better than 64-year-old Rosa, a savvy manager who nurtures employees within a system determined to eliminate them. Review | If you hate office life, you’ll love — and laugh at — this novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z In mesmerizing moments like this, FastHorse neatly sets up the tension between identity and the performance of identity — a tension she doesn’t resolve but upgrades over the course of the play to a full-scale paradox. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z A paradox of Mr. LaChiusa’s music is that is unceasingly melodic yet not conventionally tuneful. Music Review: Michael John LaChiusa Has His Night at the Allen Room 2014-02-04T21:44:49Z Complexity, ambiguity and paradox may be sweet nectar for historians, but not necessarily for a broad public that tends to prefer grand generalizations, sound bites and contemporary categories into which to shoehorn historical figures. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z In a paradox that informs the entire project, doing something new for Daft Punk involved embracing the methods and mind-set of the past. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z Mr. Carrère was drawn to Mr. Limonov’s paradoxes and his prose. Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Muir sees an odd paradox in the importance of being a steady presence for his audience in this moment. Perspective | Cable news stars like Hannity make headlines. But more people are watching David Muir’s ABC newscast. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The overall impact of the changes is to achieve the paradox for which crime fiction aims: making the story clearer in some ways but more mysterious in others. Mark Lawson: Comparing the pilot of hit detective series Sherlock to the finished product is highly revealing 2010-09-02T06:00:00Z This stressful, ongoing debate fuels the seeming paradox of an “endearing” military force. Japan's Cute Army 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In this nested tale, Horowitz seems to be querying his genre’s essential paradox: how often it’s a refuge, comfort reading. From the creator of ‘Foyle’s War,’ a delightful homage to Agatha Christie 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z A comprehensive lesson in Japanese aesthetics could be illustrated by this work, which embodies paradoxes of natural and contrived, ephemeral and permanent, simple and exalted. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Instead, Yu is interested in the paradox that passion brings: She finds agency as she surrenders to her desire. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Never at a loss, Orton's wit, following in Wilde's footsteps, relies on paradox to send up conventional morality. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z This seeming paradox arises because analyzing the color of a wine requires an understanding of context and many variables. A Rosé by Any Other Color 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Throughout her literary career, Ms. Aidoo sought to illuminate the paradoxes faced by modern African women, still burdened by the legacies of colonialism. Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z It is an odd paradox that, until recently, the sentiment was not entirely reciprocated. In Spain, Mir??s Majorca 2011-07-15T18:55:00Z A second paradox deserves a moment’s pause, though. Looks Aren’t Everything at Café Altro Paradiso 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The paradox in Mr. Jarrett’s career is that recordings made in controlled seclusion represent a small percentage of his work. Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z This conflation of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary “activity” is precisely the novel’s conceit, playing with the Taoist tradition of paradox. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z It is a paradox of big-time show business, in which much money is spent and at stake, to want to invest in sure things even as there are no sure things in show business. Some of TV year's best didn't make it to winter 2010-12-22T22:15:04Z After Dickens, Chesterton — the apostle of tradition, paradox and joie de vivre — seems the most Christmas-y of writers, and yet he’s far more than a literary Kriss Kringle. Review | Looking for a seasonal tale of mystery, murder and ghosts? Here are 9 books just for you. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But the paradox of poetry is that putting the moment into words transforms it. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In the face of Lanzmann’s existential void and moral paradoxes, Nemes offers a tale of ordinary decency applied in indecent circumstances. “Son of Saul” and the Ungraspable Horrors of Auschwitz 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In preparing for “Swan Lake,” Ms. Teuscher was faced with a paradox. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Not just all those lost girls appearing and disappearing, and their stories, but the parallel stories and echoes, the weaving together of past and present, the paradoxes, the wit and the whimsy. Case Histories; Australia With Simon Reeve – TV review 2013-05-20T06:00:22Z It’s all a paradox, as Bearing would say. The Out of Towner: Cancer Survivors See the Play ?Wit? 2012-02-16T23:10:38Z No, this is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z The paradox of the many different colors of the nation’s many different coronavirus alert tiers is that they matter both so little and so much. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z It's this paradox that the authors of this unorthodox, small-scale and, sorry to say, often rather irritating show want to explore. 'Dog and Pony's' grating personalities spoil the musical fun 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Again, the poem touches the intangible, and produces a further paradox, the "perfume without the perfume". Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z The paradox of the best film adaptations is that we love them for doing the opposite: They put us onstage with the story and give us no say. Bumps on the Road From Broadway to Hollywood 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z It is when we acknowledge our own replicant-status that we come face to face with ourselves as that irresolvable paradox: the "thing" that "thinks." In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z I was seated in the jaws of the grim paradox of being genuine but relatable and also bankable. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “Dark Content” is another complex meditation, on an untenable paradox: the friendliness of the Internet, which seems to invite free expression, is maintained by the hard work of censorship. Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z And the paradox was that his movies could avail themselves of higher budgets than the French new wave, because they had state support. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The paradox of all these shows is that, because we have nowhere else to place our collective faith, only the anti-hero can contest or uproot the imperfect structures of the universe. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z She painted, like all the greatest artists, from a place of paradox. Review | You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Washington's popularity surge recently created a paradox in the city's economic success story. Americans answer D.C.'s siren song of employment, strong economy 2012-12-21T21:26:39Z Koefoed's film ultimately considers the paradox of this "problematic" painting and its shadowy provenance. "The Lost Leonardo" is a slick, fascinating mystery that uncovers ego and hubris in the art world 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, is a paradox. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox His writing career was unstable and full of paradoxes, just as his life was lived in intimacy with humiliation and terror. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z Cave, who ran an eponymous fashion line in the 1990s, convincingly exploits fashion’s paradox, its simultaneous desire for concealment and acknowledgment, in ways that both anoint Black cultural history and illuminate its anxieties. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z That paradox makes “Other Desert Cities” the most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many a season. | 'Other Desert Cities': Drowning in Domestic Denial in the Sands of Palm Springs 2011-01-14T03:00:00Z The author David Lodge makes use of this paradox in his 1984 academic farce “Small World,” whose young academic Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis on “The Influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The plays themselves champion principle, which leads to the great paradox. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This helps clarify, I think, one of the industry’s seeming paradoxes. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But it’s a cinema of paradox, a cinema of love where love closes the borders and circles the wagons. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Philippe Canguilhem, a musicology professor at the University of Tours in France, said, “I have always been shocked by the paradox between the quality of Lusitano’s accomplishments and how little we know about his life.” A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “Wanted” is focused on a furor Das caused in India last year, after he posted a monologue online called “Two Indias” in which he examined the country’s paradoxes and divisions. They’re Comedy Stars at Home. At Edinburgh Fringe, They’re Nobodies. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The true comedian embraces the paradox whereby the best way to honour the deadly seriousness of their trade is to keep seriousness at arm's length. Does Steve Martin have to be funny 24/7? 2010-12-09T13:22:00Z Photograph: Corbis Creation and its paradoxes have long troubled the philosophical mind. The Same Life Twice by Frank Kuppner – review 2012-08-24T21:45:03Z Here, Boyle examines another paradox of liberalism: how to reconcile a healthy disdain for our American aggression and colonialism with the need to protect against the dangers of the world. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Which leads to the paradox of the DIA Garden Court: Was Rivera pulling his punches? Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z What she goes on to describe is, if you think about it, a perverse variation of Theseus’ paradox. In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And the series also notes that, among too many other cruel paradoxes, slaves cut the stone and laid the bricks for the U.S. Charting 5 Centuries of African American History 2013-10-21T14:43:26Z This is the paradox that lies behind formal inventiveness: you can only achieve an exemplary kind of novelty if it is not, primarily, what you are trying to achieve. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Ms. Goldman was drawn to Kid Creole because — as Mr. Darnell’s alias suggests — within the danceable, tropical-treat songs were also thoughts on a post-racial culture and on the paradoxes of masculinity. Dapper as Ever, Kid Creole Dresses Up His Songs for a New Musical 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Clever, moving, of the moment and also taking the long view, they combine all the paradoxes good poetry should contain. Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent 2011-07-13T23:05:01Z I also think there’s a lushness to the show amidst such scenes of death and decay, that there’s a very cool paradox going on under the surface of a great many scenes. Scott M. Gimple on ‘The Walking Dead’ and What Those Zombies Are Really Eating 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z This explains the apparent paradox that much of the music heard in “The Routes of Slavery” is joyful, life-affirming, despite the context of cruelty and inhumanity. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z “They’re interested in existing in a state of paradox,” said Naomi Beckwith, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago who helped organize the exhibition that’s now in San Jose. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The fact that it’s not simple doesn’t mean it’s a paradox: it means it’s not simple. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z She wonders whether the migrating soul, by vanishing into another while simultaneously remaining the same, might contain the paradox of empathy. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Narcissism is the great contradiction of my dad and the great paradox of spirituality, of which he is an icon.” Deepak Chopra’s Son Makes Him a Documentary Subject 2012-09-29T23:13:01Z With an intellect that supersedes social boundaries through sheer insistence, Sycamore chronicles the paradox of inhabiting a fluid life in a rigid world. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Everything’s about me; nothing’s about me: This is the central paradox with which Knott wrestles again and again in his poetry. Bill Knott's unclassifiable poetry is collected in 'I Am Flying Into Myself' 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z In practice—in a “paradox” that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified—our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The paradox of #MeToo playing out so relentlessly in the public arena is that its inherently private reality is what really counts: how we behave in all those daily, intimate and incremental ways. We can hold Junot Diaz to account – while still empathising with him | Chitra Ramaswamy 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The paradox at the heart of Koolhaas' obsession with the book as a format is that he reveres it and disrespects it in equal measure. Tome, sweet tome 2010-05-17T15:37:00Z “He was an enigma wrapped inside a paradox,” Mr. Nye said. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The need to nurture living things, I believe, flows from our own innate knowledge that life is laden with paradox: It is both robust and fragile, enduring and fleeting, commonplace and yet so precious. The coronavirus reminds us of our deep-rooted need for medicinal plants 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s an approach that sabotages the show’s original wit, which hinges on the paradox of classic-looking fairy tale figures acting and sounding like latter-day urban neurotics. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance. Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke' 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z There is a paradox at the center of this disappointing film: the drama is anchored in the white bourgeoisie’s efforts to transform the city, a process that the filmmakers clearly consider a repellent clean-up. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z "It's an amazing, wonderful paradox, isn't it?" said Pawlikowski, 57, who watched the nominations on a coffee shop television while on vacation in Mexico. Poland's 'Ida' gets big Oscar bang by staying small 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A man stuffed with paradoxes, Sorkin is one of modernity’s most gifted phrase-turners and a person given to occasional bouts of very bad writing. Aaron Sorkin’s masturbatory falseness: Sony’s stolen emails, “The Newsroom” and a bankrupt NYT op-ed 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z "No light, but rather darkness visible": in 10 syllables Milton conjures the paradox of Hell. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z Without the pretension, though — Anguillan style is a perfect paradox: unfussy chic, barefoot elegance. What to Do in Anguilla 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z As a writer, Mr. Phillips specializes in paradoxes and antitheses — almost all of which he puts forth thoughtfully and gracefully. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In his writing, he is interested in probability, paradox, word play. The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The poems are often full of seeming paradox and contradiction, a feature which can wrong-foot just as it provokes and delights. Selected Poems by Don Paterson ? review 2012-05-18T21:45:03Z With this fantastical novel, he’s managed to capture the poignant paradox of loving troubled children. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The subtitle of “How to Be a Person in the World” describes “Ask Polly” as a “guide through the paradoxes of modern life.” Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of this book is that Yip-Williams writes with such vibrancy and electricity even as she is dying. A Dying Young Woman Reminds Us How to Live 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z "It is a theatre of unresolved paradox, of multiple selves, of salvation through sinning." Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z Ms. Anderson’s stories are philosophical shaggy-dog stories, leading not to neat conclusions but to revelations of paradox, emptiness and eternity. Music Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Political at River to River Shows 2013-06-20T22:39:21Z Yet the paradox of the biennale is that, bellinis apart, it is usually a physically awful experience. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z In this know-it-all age of thought-leader messiahs and thumb-taunting Twitter Torquemadas, Russo places his faith in the ideals of art — ambiguity, paradox, heresy, the sublime — over the black-and-white ideologies of our current politics. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Third, another paradox: this public phenomenon is obsessively, even comically, secretive. We still need books to make sense of Wikileaks 2011-02-02T14:38:09Z The paradox is that the risk of that happening is increased by German-inspired austerity and a lack of growth. Ordoliberalism revisited 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That isn’t a spoiler, but it’s a bit of paradox. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z It reminds me of that paradox where you step halfway towards the wall and then you step half of that step and half of that step, and you never actually reach the wall. Liz Phair's "Horror Stories" chronicles the real ghosts that haunt us 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z His work thrives on paradox, using cutting-edge technique to tap into the ancient-seeming realms. 5 must-see Seattle art shows in October 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Certainly it's tempting to feel that the habits and paradoxes of power have not essentially changed in the last 200-plus years. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z Through Depardieu’s tormented power, Ferrara conveys the harrowing paradox of pleasure without joy, a forced theatrical show of regal exuberance in which all the power and all the energy are focussed solely on the payoff. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The paradoxes of his position are the film’s real subject. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps nowhere is this paradox more apparent than in the realm of parenthood. Should I defrost my freezer boys? 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Life for her is paradox — playful, mournful, always unpredictable. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The paradox is that the hoopla capped what is likely the NFL's worst year ever in the arena of public relations. Sunday's game a ratings winner for NBC 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z This is the wonderful paradox of the work: It is insistently trifling and insistently perfect. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Shorto moves beyond nostalgia skillfully, as he so often does, and touches on the paradox that the city is both the beneficiary and the... Amsterdam, Revisited 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z I’m white, but I too experienced the paradox of being an outsider in the insular world of an elite boarding school. Mushroom Paintings, Reading Speeds and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Not for them the rarefied logical paradoxes of the British or the arcane vocabulary of the French. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z The paradox, then, was delicious, because Thatcher, her ideas, and their impact on society all served to create a cultural earthquake. How Thatcherism politicised the arts in Britain 2013-04-09T10:51:09Z The dominatrix, then, is a paradox: both feminine and dominant, she is a woman paid to refuse men. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s cleverly analytical and proudly artificial, but with human paradoxes that won’t go away. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z It's telling it to them straight, which I know sounds like it's such a paradox. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The gluttonous paradox, however, is that the result is nearly always unfulfilling. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z He is an anti-hero in that sense, a paradox and the world is better for it. A “peaceaholic” and haunted soul, Padraig O’Malley is the subject of “Peacemaker” 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Because musicals always justify their main characters, even their wicked ones, just by letting them sing, “The Boy Who Danced on Air” was doomed by a paradox built into its premise. Review: Tackling a Major Taboo in ‘The Boy Who Danced on Air’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Royal court melodrama derives its pleasures from the mash-up of manners and the Machiavellian — the tasty paradox of wickedness expressed politely. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Flames in the Night Sky 2014-05-05T03:38:23Z “Old Town Road” might be here to stay, even though it’ll probably end up like the “Monster Mash” — highly durable but mostly meaningless, a true pop paradox, a graveyard smash. Perspective | ‘Old Town Road’ is a smash. Will it mutate into ‘Baby Shark’? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Many great novels recruit the reader into some version of this paradox, but few writers are as confidently transparent about it as Aiken: The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It is a truly engrossing volume, whose epic sweep reflects the grandeur and paradoxes of its subject. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z And when the tale soars into the realm of superheroes, it explores the moral complications of omnipotence and the paradoxes of theodicy. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “Judas,” a new novel by Amos Oz, is a paradox of stillness and provocation. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Overall, he added, “I’m in this weird paradox where I have never felt more hope and belief in my fellow citizens, and that’s amazing. I wish the governmental response was commensurate with that.” Lin-Manuel Miranda Gathers All-Star Latin Artists for Hurricane Relief 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z To date, there has been no in-depth study that contrasts Semprún’s actual experience with his literary work that examines the enigmas and paradoxes that made up his life. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z No mad scientists, no gleaming time machine, no grandfather paradox, no Tesla coils, nobody coming back from the deep past with a dinosaur for a pet. In Stephen King?s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald 2011-11-02T15:57:51Z Such a paradox, in which affection takes the form of enmity, is intrinsic to Benedick and Beatrice, sparring partners who begin as sworn enemies and wind up by vowing undying — if still thorny — love. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The title refers to the paradox of wanting to be sincere but putting up a front. Cautious Clay Makes Music About Love in the Digital Age 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z “There’s an unhappy paradox about literary biographies,” David Foster Wallace observed in The New York Times Book Review in 2004, in reference to a life of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Kids throw up so much sometimes, in fact, that they seem like a physics problem gone awry, a paradox about geometric volume. Motherlode Blog: Emetophobia, Vomiting Children and Me 2013-01-14T19:31:55Z Yet despite her despair, every action scene is as queasily pristine as the first, leaving “The Villainess” caught in paradox. Review: ‘The Villainess’ Reveals a Sadist’s Eye for Action 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z This sense of the fundamental paradox in things, the tension between the echt and the ersatz, drives the emotional engine of Empty Space. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z Knowing that he’s being watched by Mandelup, he hyperactively tidies the adversities of his life, and the paradoxes of his desires, for her frame. “Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling Look at the Making of a Teen Influencer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It remains a paradox that the composer of a work of genius like West Side Story should have plummeted so low while aiming so ambitiously high. Bernstein's Mass 2010-07-12T21:45:00Z A fascinating exhibition at the Royal Opera House details her career in photographs and in costumes and reveals an essential paradox about her. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Mason Reflects on Leadership of Royal Ballet 2012-07-20T22:03:05Z At the core of political punditry is a paradox: Those who know very much also know very little. Ron DeSantis has reached a perilous point: Inevitability 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Maybe these paradoxes are why this new Wonder Woman seems suited to this moment. Wonder Woman: A Perfect Paradox for the Generation That Expects to Have It All 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The dehumanizing aspect of it is quite something, but it’s a paradox; there’s something human about it. Brian Cox, star of “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” on the work: “It can be quite brutal actually” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z For more than half a century, Mr. Shatner has embodied a paradox: He has been consistently unpredictable, both in his choices of projects and in how his efforts have been received. ?Shatner?s World: We Just Live in It? Heads to Broadway 2012-02-14T16:41:40Z Luminous and bold, elegant and elliptical, epic and novelettish, Cather's story reflects the paradoxes of the small town on the wild prairie of its setting, and of its pioneering author. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z As we left the hall afterwards, we saw one last paradox: RS Thomas sat at a desk, signing books and chatting to readers as obligingly as if he were a bestselling writer of romantic fiction. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z This year’s edition resolved the paradox a little bit. Hot Sets and Warm Chilly Nights at NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z So you set before the audience a really belly-rumbling paradox of: I really hate what she does but I want the kids fed. ‘Hit & Miss,’ With Chloë Sevigny as a Transgender Hit Woman 2012-07-06T16:00:00Z One of the enduring paradoxes of great apocalyptic writing is that it consoles even as it alarms. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z The so-called “obesity paradox” was illustrated by three separate presentations at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna. Obese patients more likely to survive infection in hospital 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z With this book, Jones invites us — indeed, challenges us — to look anew at the central paradox of the case. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox we accept, just as we believe, for a few hours, that the sun shines bright on a dark and stormy night. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z That hero, Desmond Doss, is inscribed in the history books as something of a paradox: a conscientious objector who was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in combat. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The paradox is the British remember, the French do not, said Steg. A slaughter, then oblivion, mark France's deadliest day in World War One 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Quite astounding paradoxes could result—Counter-Reformation bishops who enjoyed “absolute” rule could only fume quietly over their Jewish or Protestant populations, free to practise their religion under imperial protection. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It remains an essential paradox of the city—that a place with so many people living so close together can also be so isolating. The Faces Behind Craigslist’s Strictly Platonic Personal Ads 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Often a poet’s last poems appear to be aware of this paradox. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z But there is a new social trend - the rise of 'the single person' as model consumer - that presents us with a paradox. Ewan Morrison: what I'm thinking about ... why capitalism wants us to stay single 2012-08-11T12:01:34Z His popularity is just the sort of paradox Žižek delights in because if it were down to him, he says, he would rather not talk to anyone. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z The hazards of "alpinism" are outlined and the seeming paradox of being "in" the outdoors is discussed. Review: A night at Northwest New Works ? playful men with verve, serious women on the verge 2010-06-06T16:59:00Z Still, Meyer is an amiable narrator, and he introduces the reader to some of China’s greatest paradoxes, notably a pride in history that coexists with a compulsion to destroy the past. Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Their efforts tend to lack artistic paradox, nuance or form — the things that allow viewers to think for themselves. Art Review: Combining People and Machines in Venice 2011-07-08T16:55:52Z There is fretfulness in even his most lyrical descriptions, and it is remarkable how this paradox is mirrored in the atonality-spiked lushness of the music. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The paradox of containing such transgressive work in museums is not lost on scholars or artists. The Bay Citizen: California?s 1970s Conceptual Art Comes Home to Berkeley Museum of Art 2012-03-02T00:41:07Z “The Other Side of Everything” is a story of a bitter paradox: the urgency of political action in the face of injustice and the uncertainty that significant progress will result. “The Other Side of Everything,” Reviewed: A Daughter Documents Yugoslavia’s Nationalistic Nightmare 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox starkly rendered in fabric by the first of Jonathan Anderson’s costumes, velvety-soft, floor-length gowns that jut out at harsh angles, like front-turned bustles whose bell curves have been replaced by blunt machetes. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Egan also gestures to this paradox by choosing as her epigraph a quote from Herman Melville, who spent most of his life not on the island of Nantucket but on the island of Manhattan. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z There is an enduring paradox in the centuries of bibliographical obsession with the work of a man who didn’t give a hoot about books. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z “The paradox of this film is that it is both unremittingly bleak and rigorously humane,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in November. DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z But her preoccupation with our planet’s ponderous apocalypse also highlights the paradox of human invention: We make things to preserve our memories, ideas and cultures, and we also make things to destroy them. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Though the music might be wildly radical, this core—another paradox—would never change. L’enfant terrible 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Eminem has always been a walking paradox, using several different personas – Eminem, Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers, B Rabbit – to say everything from the hateful to the unpopular to the nearly absurdly sentimental. Hip-hop goes for gay marriage 2013-04-02T15:27:00Z To illuminate the paradox that Native American names, symbols and stories are ubiquitous in American life, even if actual Indians are largely invisible. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z These basics are simple to describe, but it is a very complex decision, almost always involving paradox, in the sense that within that circle are experiences of grief and relief. “I wish we talked about ‘choices’ instead of ‘choice’”: A Texas abortion counselor on how to change the conversation about abortion 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The paradox of the corn poppy is that it is a wildflower — farmers view it as a weed — that is individually delicate and fleeting but capable of appearance in vast colonies. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z “The Twelve Lives” also explores a central paradox of Hitchcock’s work: how a director who infamously referred to actors as cattle drew from them some of their best work. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z If the housebound performers noticed the paradox, they didn’t let on. Broadway Adjourns, but the ‘Sing Street’ Band Plays On 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The paradox of English life is that ours is a small-c conservative, broadly democratic founded on chaos, privilege and snobbery. Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings – review 2013-01-27T08:00:01Z Certainly I can't think of any play that pins down so accurately the paradox at the heart of Thatcherism: the simultaneous celebration of traditional family values and the sanctification of individual greed. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z An intriguing paradox is that the museum focuses on both a very young population — children 3 to 8 — and very sophisticated work. Sugar Hill Museum Brings Art to New York’s Youngest (and Poorest) 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The disjunction between Facebook’s sunny communitarian promise and these ambient tremors of unease — the paradox of a deep loneliness in a world of friendship — is summed up in the character of Mark Zuckerberg himself. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z “It’s a paradox in my head,” he said. Paying while dating: meet the men who pick up the check (and those who don't) 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “What’s thrilling is to be able to delve through the human psyche and the paradox of the human condition and play them in a farcical, superhero action thriller,” says Hardy, speaking by phone from London. Tom Hardy, Andy Serkis sink their teeth into ‘Venom’ sequel 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z I like the paradox of these two extremely delicate-looking plants having such vigor. Fronds with benefits: A guide to ferns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z That paradox is dramatized to haunting effect in the new teaser trailer for Jason Reitman's upcoming dramedy "Men, Women & Children," which Paramount unveiled Tuesday. 'Men, Women & Children' trailer: Jason Reitman on Internet-era angst 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Pope.L was talking about the paradox of his work receiving the support of three of New York’s largest art institutions, after forty years of them more or less ignoring it. Crawling Through New York City with the Artist Pope.L 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Medical professionals specializing in disability understand this “paradox,” but most practitioners do not. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “Her willingness to embrace such paradoxes, in this book as well as in her films, is the mark of a real artist.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The miraculous paradox is that this universal pattern repeats itself in circumstances that are always unique. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z That is a beautiful paradox I hear in his music. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z In the most fascinating section, Mr Goodwin explores the paradox of a possible correlation between the artistic and literary splendours of the Golden Age and political decadence. Global power 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Intricacy is often matched with simplicity, but there’s a recurring sense of paradox. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Her impetus, to interrogate the adjective in the title — to confront its “implicit paradoxes,” says a news release — manifests as an assortment of overlapping studies, each concerned, it seems, with just running its course. Jen Rosenblit’s ‘a Natural dance’ Plays at the Kitchen 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Maybe the paradox of the past twenty years is that its revolution—the digital revolution—seems nearly invisible and itself defies representation. Movies Click: A Rarely Screened Rock-and-Roll Classic 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The paradox of Ms. Yun’s real life is that despite attempts to remain in the background she is celebrated all over the world. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z “It seems like a paradox,” Abrahamson said in a telephone interview. ‘Normal People’ Takes Sex Seriously 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z And yet there is something in Mellers's complaint that points towards the paradox at the heart of all Carter's mature music. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z But there is something else hovering just to the side: the paradox that rises, willy-nilly, from the welter of contrariness Bailey unveils. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The synagogues exemplify the paradox of the Venice Ghetto: It sheltered Jews but also restricted them to the 1.5-acre area. Reviving the Renaissance Temples of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z If there’s a poetic little paradox to this annual rap and R&B summit, it might be this: As the festival gets bigger, the voices get smaller. Perspective | Turnstile, Tinashe, Fay Victor, 42 Dugg — the fall concert season is here 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The relationship that changed me was the relationship that made me – a common enough paradox. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Tora-san needs to belong as much as he yearns to escape, a paradox by no means limited to the Japanese archipelago. DVDs: Amiable Tramp Drifting Through Postwar Japan 2010-03-05T23:18:00Z Which must present her with a bit of a paradox. Mercurial Marling 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z That those essentially German inventions were pressed to serve as a means by which to establish an “Ars Gallica,” or French art, was one of the paradoxes examined during the festival’s first weekend. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z “As entrepreneurs, we talk about filling a gap. This huge paradox of waste and hunger creates a creative tension for us to go in and find solutions,” Simon said. Why entrepreneurs are suddenly finding the beauty in ugly produce 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z This latter point is not the paradox it may appear to be. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z But an explanation of that B side, including the nuances and paradoxes of self-exploitation, are only hinted at rather than explored. Movie Review: Ice-T Produces a Documentary About Iceberg Slim 2013-07-18T21:50:06Z IT’S a curious paradox of the arithmetic of modern life. Possessed: A Turquoise Link to Willie Nelson 2010-12-17T23:39:13Z In this sense, “Abbey Road” memorializes a paradox of the group. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps Affleck, and others who have struggled for their art in the name of Gotham City, would understand that essential paradox. Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “Few can handle the densities and outrageous paradoxes of ‘real’ life. Sol Yurick, Novelist, Dies at 87 2013-01-09T15:49:27Z PB: That paradox, the joy of the birds singing, and the pain — Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He printed a different element from each negative, creating a photomontage that could be filled with paradoxes, wonder and symbolism. Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z It was a paradox of the whole experience that things which sounded easy and natural to an English ear gave me kittens, while more highfalutin and complicated expressions proved much easier. "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The dark paradox is that for all the opportunities the Fringe provides to stage works about mental health, it is taxing for the mental health of its performers. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “How To” is another face: Laugh and accept life’s paradoxes. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z There's a paradox to it: it's music that clearly requires a lot of time and effort to fully unpick, while defying you to play it often enough to actually do that. Scott Walker: Bish Bosch – review 2012-11-29T15:29:01Z It might seem a paradox of Ms. Benglis’s art that, while proffering a holistic fantasy of all things being naturally connected, it does nothing to hide the modern, nonnatural materials and processes of its making. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Wedged in a paradox between self-empowerment and cultural norms, she told me her story over iced tea. Does waxing make me a bad feminist? 2014-02-17T22:00:00Z At the heart of the book is Davis’s paradox of writing about the self: she tries to break its hold over her imagination by describing it, even as it grows magnified under her examination. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Then there are the lyrics, which relish various states of derangement and paradox. Review: Weaves Brings Sonic Slapstick in Shifting Tempos to the CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “From a dermatological perspective, darker skin tones present a paradox,” Dr. Sturm said. How Skin-Care Companies Are Tackling Issues Faced by Women of Color 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Nieman’s results paved the way for a theory called the “elite athlete paradox”. The elite athlete paradox: how running a marathon can make you ill 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox of American childhood poverty that experts routinely devise the most complex solutions for it — or in recent parlance “innovations” — most of which are elaborate, costly or otherwise impractical to implement. Eliminating Child Poverty With a Government Check 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z But she doesn’t tell that story here, or even acknowledge the paradox. Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The paradox of this production, performed in the round on an almost bare stage, is that despite the closeness of the action, the play itself feels remote. Review: In ‘The Brutes,’ the Actor Who Would Be an Assassin 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z This paradox is a credit to Attenberg’s wit and scathing social observations, which offer up an affectionate, insightful portrait of her tribe. ‘All Grown Up,’ by Jami Attenberg, is an X-ray of Gen X life 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The confectionery gleam of such moments is both predictably fairy-tale and yet – and this is the paradox of Capra's work – somehow still magical. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Her willingness to embrace such paradoxes, in this book as well as in her films, is the mark of a real artist. How Sarah Polley, Child Star and ‘Canada’s Sweetheart,’ Grew Up Way Too Fast 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z As their final paradox, the least crowd-pleasing band imaginable leave a reverential audience thoroughly sated. These New Puritans – review 2013-06-20T16:59:19Z Online, of course, but the paradox of online music is that B-sides are both more and less available than ever before. The buried treasure of Pet Shop Boys' B-sides 2012-02-08T16:21:03Z The film’s message lies in a paradox expressed early in the film. Movie Review: Vikram Gandhi’s ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’ 2012-06-19T22:02:15Z And yet, Dr. Sarna points out, “The paradox of modesty is that its obligations fall mainly on women.” In ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ Fashion Is a Flash Point 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It strikes me that the Vanity Fair spat highlights the curious paradox of the sterile celebrity interview. Acting up: Angelina Jolie and the movie stars who dispute their interviews 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The darkness is a paradox, a situation at cross-purposes with itself because, until you open that box, the cat is dead and alive at the same time. What Tom Petty's "Straight Into Darkness" teaches us about uncertainty 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In fleet scenes, Austen captures the excitement of rehearsal, the frisson of “showmance” and the paradox of theater as both liberating and distorting. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z One of the great paradoxes of modern consumerism is that these goods are mass-market signifiers of exclusivity, tokens of aristocratic populism. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z The result is a vibrant portrayal of historical custom, but also the paradoxes that condition the eternal search for self. Best movies of 2019: A compelling mix of new and established voices 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Tom Zé is alive to paradox and perversity; he celebrates it, shoving inapposite ideas together, appreciating the dirtiness of life. Music Review: Watch Out for Those Doors, and the Acoustics 2011-07-20T22:10:04Z The paradox of such works is that to grasp their import fully requires a great deal of theoretical knowledge. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z An ambivalence not elevated, by some miracle of consciousness or language, to the pitch of tragic paradox remains mere confusion. ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z But the very antiquarian terms of his revolutionary doctrine indicate the comical paradox of his situation. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The paradox of Prince Philip’s life may have been that, as the husband of a queen and father of a future king, he was essential to power although insignificant to its workings. How Prince Philip Navigated the Most Challenging of Corporate Dress Codes 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z O’Neill, staring into the abyss of his own photo album, plunged into the paradox of family relationships, the push and pull of these untenable, inescapable, irreplaceable bonds. Alfred Molina, Jane Kaczmarek and the slow burn of a 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z You say yourself that Christianity contains many paradoxes. ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z This paradox is used to provide the poem with a truly devastating denouement. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z Q: The character of Maggie is a paradox, both contemporary and traditional, isn’t she? ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Religious fixations with the body highlight an abiding paradox: Many faiths view the body as a temple, but also a hazard to the soul. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z They frame the obvious paradoxes, such as how conservative support of Lorance entails casting the troops who testified against him as liars or pawns. Review: ‘Leavenworth’ Puts the Army on Trial 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “Paradoxes abound in life,” Yip-Williams writes in a heart-rending letter to her daughters; she asks us to confront these paradoxes with her head-on. A Dying Young Woman Reminds Us How to Live 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The paradox is that what they try to subvert in “Stone” — namely, your viewing habits — are intrinsic to your enjoyment of the movie. | 'Stone': Upright Parole Officer With a Target on His Back 2010-10-07T23:04:00Z Those paradoxes are a theme of “Pas de Detour,” which is abstractly about obstacles and finding paths around them. Review: In ‘Pas de Detour,’ Cornfield Dance Plays With Obstacles 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Palmieri is trying to square this "paradox", by performing in character as an English comedian who pretends to be Italian. Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z At its heart is the bittersweet paradox that distinguishes the best music of the disco era. The best No 1 singles: Abba – Dancing Queen 2012-05-31T20:36:00Z Worrying about one’s own narcissism has a whiff of paradox. How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z He’s alert to paradox – for instance, to how kinky sex-play can be a way of “building a paradise of mutual acceptance” — and he pinpoints the problematic gulf between sexual life and workaday life. The gulf between spirited sex and everyday life 2013-01-30T19:32:25Z The Oscars this year are interesting precisely because they crystallize this paradox. Film: Huge Film, Small Film: Big Stakes 2010-03-06T09:54:00Z Apart from sheer pleasure, what draws me back again and again to Elliott Carter is that, through his music, he gets closer to the heart of this paradox than any other composer. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z Ravel creates a paradox: A miniature musical form becomes a vast space. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Get past the name and the cream sherry, though, and you’ll discover a wonderful paradox of a drink: one that manages to be simultaneously sweet and savoury, rich and lean, nutty and herbaceous. The unloved cocktails that deserve to be the toast of the bar 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “I believe deeply in the power of paradox and contradiction.” This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z In The Muppet Christmas Carol, one wonderful paradox is that Michael Caine as Scrooge is almost the only real human on screen, while the film concerns itself with what makes us humane. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Something rare, euphoric and mad was recorded on celluloid: the Iranian way of life after the second world war, with all its paradoxes. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z There is always a paradox at the heart of character . . . some contradiction that ties the knot, holds two conflicting halves together . Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks ? review 2011-07-14T09:00:01Z Directed by Annie Tippe, this a cappella show offered the season’s most sophisticated and heartening artistic paradox, as a dauntingly high-tech subject was embraced and exploded by that most low-tech of instruments, the human voice. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The other paradox of these unimaginable objects is that somebody first had to imagine them. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z News and World Report, toward which colleges display “a paradox of pervasive contempt,” as Mr. Bruni writes, “and yet widespread obeisance.” Review: In ‘Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,’ Frank Bruni Examines College Admissions Mania 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z The paradox is possible because the “landscape” of the poem is outside time. In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Despite the paradox of hosting the Super Bowl, the city does seem to understand that this is an important opportunity to provide the nation with a teachable moment. Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z This 1993 specimen of the classic avant-garde — if that isn’t a paradox — consists of an intense, disturbing and mostly impenetrable 45-minute monologue delivered at breakneck speed by a character bent on suicide. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Consider Phlebas, the first in the series, established the moral paradox that fuels the whole series. The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks - review 2012-10-10T07:00:02Z It is intensely personal, cleareyed and absolutely riveting, partly because the author, thrust into an outsider’s position, developed a keen appreciation of Germany’s contradictions and paradoxes. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z "Neither one of them is totally true," he said, "But the fact that you believe in this paradox means that you're caught in a certain kind of trap." Who needs TV and movies? Audio dramas are booming when our minds need them most 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “The paradox of her life is that she’s leaving the world and forgetting the words.” Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z It's a pretty sort of paradox for any professional writer, but one which, you suspect, resonates for Parks with particular clarity. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z This is likely due to what he calls "the paradox of audio drama," where producers see it as simultaneously old and yet brand new and untapped. Who needs TV and movies? Audio dramas are booming when our minds need them most 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image Here's a paradox: we live in an "information age" and yet information is a maddeningly elusive concept. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z “He likes defiant, enigmatic paradoxes and pregnant parables that never quite close, perhaps by design.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The paradox, of course, is that the frame rate is so novel that it calls attention to itself. Ang Lee: 'I am Hulk! I am the hidden dragon!' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Berger doesn’t try to repurpose King Arthur for a new audience but to expose his oddness, and the paradox of a person who “was never historical, but everything he did was true.” Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z And so, there is a paradox: We resist the idea of living in an us-vs.-them world only to find that our basic sense of “us” is already fractured. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z There is a great paradox gnawing at the soul of Samuel D. Hunter’s new drama, “A Great Wilderness.” ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z The whole business captured a strange paradox of CBS sitcoms, of which Two and a Half Men was the most brazen example. Review: Two and a Half Men Stays True to Its Wicked Heart 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z In its conscious recalling of that time, Mr. Hinterhäuser’s first summer was a bit of a paradox: Progressive to the extent that it evoked the 1990s. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “That is the paradox of the Chess story,” the British newspaper The Guardian wrote in 2010. Phil Chess, Whose Record Label Elevated Unknown Blues Musicians, Dies at 95 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But I am there with my own questions and my own confusion and the paradox of me being in that situation and understanding that history. "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The paradox, of course, is that Trump expresses nothing but contempt for the very people in the media who have made his candidacy viable. It’s time for TV news to stop playing the stooge for Donald Trump 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Instead, Verlaine’s songs reveled in the open-ended: in improvisations that could spiral out toward free jazz and in verbal enigmas and paradoxes. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z You may even find its final moment moving, as the paradox of separation and inclusion is resolved in a lovely flash. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z That’s a paradox, since Shakespeare is the gold standard for verbal eloquence in English. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z The paradox is that this speech is made by a man who is unmistakably a life force, the sort of character around whom plays are written. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z This, in a nutshell, captures the paradox of wine evaluation. What Is a Great Wine? Verdicchio di Matelica Has Some Ideas 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The paradox of this is that Pastis is really meant for those nights when you decide to cancel your reservations at the little nine-seat tasting counter where the menu is inspired by Kieslowski’s “Decalogue.” Back to Pastis for a Second Helping of Nostalgia 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z ABC will soldier on without a major beauty brand for a second year, a paradox given the show's popularity with female viewers. Ad rates, demand rebound for Oscar broadcast 2010-03-01T23:33:00Z "The paradox for me is that mist is one of the most important elements in my installations," he said. Merseyside mist to form 2012 Cultural Olympiad artwork 2011-03-02T18:44:52Z A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z The real paradox may end up being different. Abroad: In Planning a History Museum, Sarkozy Opens a Can of Worms Instead 2011-03-08T10:23:38Z It's a paradox, but it's what I'm doing. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z Those works were often about the connections and paradoxes between art and life. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox that weighs especially heavy on Victoria Eady Butler, the master blender at Uncle Nearest, a Tennessee distillery founded by the entrepreneur Fawn Weaver in 2017. In the Male World of Whiskey, More Women Are Calling the Shots 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z The implicit paradox of becoming ill and necessarily hospitalised, meaning being removed from all the things that normally help. 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z When Dr. Bruckner tries to save Melinda from drowning on a ship bound for America around 1800, the story enters a causal loop paradox that makes some people snigger and others throw up their hands. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Such is the paradox of this saint of simple ways. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z She explains, “That it is possible to hold this paradox as part of my daily reality points to the reductive and narrow-minded nature of Rick Santorum’s assertions that prenatal testing increases the number of abortions.” Motherlode Blog: Mother of Child With Down Syndrome: Prenatal Counseling, Not Prenatal Testing, Is the Issue 2012-03-02T17:06:47Z That’s a cute paradox: The diseases prevent us from getting treated. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z That may be because they both understand the paradox that “Bergman Island” so brilliantly enacts. ‘Bergman Island’ Review: Love Among the Cinephiles 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps the Ninth’s greatest paradox is that its expression of elite, individual genius runs parallel to the message of radical inclusivity. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z It sounds like biography writing as Zeno’s paradox — getting infinitesimally closer to the end without ever reaching it. In ‘Working,’ Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z With a neat paradox, he argues that liberalism, by making a fetish of individual rights, has stripped away traditional institutions that once mediated between competing social interests, and so made necessary a domineering, authoritarian state. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Maybe that’s the paradox of alternative culture that’s always been true, only it was our turn to realize it: pop culture is born anew each time an outlaw is discovered. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z After five months of well-publicized creative difficulties for the show, this seeming paradox amounts to a theater world version of the golden fleece: the critic-proof smash. The Critics May Rant, but ?Addams Family? Rakes It In 2010-04-14T01:23:00Z More and more people are strapped into the time machine and zapped to various destinations in the past, where they bump into one another and occasionally cause “paradoxes” with explosive consequences. In the Second Season of ‘12 Monkeys,’ Time Traveling Grows More Complex 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Few chapters offer startling new arguments, though Mr. Wu is well attuned to paradoxes and ironies. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z There’s a bitter paradox in the reliance of Netflix and Amazon on theatrical releases of their best and most prominent productions and releases, such as “The Irishman” and “One Child Nation.” The Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In more traditional moviegoing conditions the paradox runs in the other direction. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z They had discovered that the secret to superstardom is embodying a paradox: they were normal guys, just like their fans, living a dream on behalf of the masses. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z That might sound like a paradox given that architecture is, by far, the art form most dependent on and intertwined with outside forces. Harvard's first online architecture course: Does it make the grade? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The Philadelphia Orchestra, which made its first, electric Carnegie Hall appearance of the season on Tuesday under the dynamic leadership of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, currently presents a paradox. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z I tried as much as I could when I wrote the book not to get caught up in any of the paradoxes and things that go along with time travel. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z This suggests a potential paradox when it comes to the so-called single-shot movie, one contrived to look as if it were recorded in one take, in real time. ‘Boiling Point’ Review: The Worst Night in the Life of a Restaurant 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z And yet, the magnificent paradox of “A Fan’s Notes” is that, in asserting his fantasy, his fanhood, Exley, finally and for the only time, becomes the center of the attention he desires. Frank Gifford and 'A Fan's Notes' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But perhaps these paradoxes are a mark of his durability. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The extreme case of the paradox of control, as Nick Williams explains on his blog The Negative Psychologist, is the abusive relationship in which one person seeks wholly to control the other. Think a tidy house will lead to a tidy life? Think again 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z That’s the paradox and the predicament of Star Wars: those who live inside the fantasy, whether they’re actors or fans, prefer their shared hallucination to the unelastic, downtrodden world of fact. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He knows how to guide the company’s orchestral forces in a style that’s not its standard repertory, and the result is an appealing paradox: both beefy and lithe. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z “This whole process of using the beauty and aesthetics of decay to revitalize, it’s a paradox you can never get out of,” says Piiparinen. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z Following a gag involving bootstrap paradoxes and causal loops, Ted admits that he is tired and thinking of selling his Les Paul. The latest "Bill & Ted" adventure is more bogus than excellent, despite some chuckles 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Marching in the front row, many Charlie Hebdo staff members wore white headbands that read “Charlie,” a nod to the paradox of the outsider weekly’s sudden arrival on the front lines of a global confrontation. Charlie Hebdo Staff Prepares Next Issue 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Despite being superficially straightforward, the book contains a good deal of irony and quite a few paradoxes. Mark Haddon on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Guardian book club 2013-04-13T07:00:24Z Every native – and the transplants slowly earning the right to call themselves locals – intuitively understands this paradox, and loves their neighborhood both because and in spite of it. The Warriors at 40: the enduring appeal of a New York classic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Nothing and no one is alien to him, and his story is told by a master of English prose in a style that is complex, imaginative, poetic and spiced with paradox. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z In another condemnation of Western art history’s paintings of nude-women-by-men paradox, Berger famously notes: “Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Few societies, I say, seem so obsessed by the paradox between celebrity and conformity as ours. Lynda Radley on Futureproof: a freak show about selfhood not sisterhood 2011-08-18T16:09:26Z But there are some films that manage to navigate the paradoxes without raising too many obvious red flags. Wrong, Actually: 3 Time-Travel Problems in Richard Curtis’s About Time 2013-11-05T15:54:56Z It's something of a paradox: Didion makes clarity and distance feel intimate, often leaving blank spots. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Race and music engender an uncomfortable paradox in American musical history. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z These striking and beautiful photographs of snakes of all kinds will make you ponder the paradox: How can something so beautiful be so instinctively revolting? 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z It also trucks in paradox and, at its best, acts as a hedge against over-simplistic and reductive notions of society and of person. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z And within that sense of wonder, paradoxes abound. Perspective | The Cosby verdict feels like a stunning breakthrough. But it was decades in the making. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z This is the paradox: in honouring our loved ones, we anchor them to the ground where they formerly belonged. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z A built-in paradox of theater is that for all its immediacy in the playhouse, it can take forever to get there. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The paradox, or dark joke, was that Howe secretly agreed with many on the right, particularly on cultural issues. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z That apart, Pullman leaves the Christian reader with a genuine paradox to ponder, and he doesn't – to his credit – suggest that the arguments are not serious. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z In its robust middle age the festival inhabits that paradox with impressive verve and grace. Critic’s Notebook: New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2012-09-27T22:17:58Z The lyrics he wrote could be cryptic or narrative, character studies or tall tales or riddles, and they were informed by history, myth and paradox. Robbie Robertson’s 16 Essential Songs 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Many in the at-risk communities shared this paradox, whether or not they had been infected themselves. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z What the central events of each narrative strand have in common is that they force latent paradoxes to the fore, and force their participants into moments of choice. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Virtues of Parental Relativism 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z What Jackson described as the contradiction of “trying to think in this modern and scientific way about things that are totally imaginary or spiritual” is the sort of intellectual paradox that drives her writing. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Brief and banal though it was, I think this little interlude — more than the reams of music scholarship and journalism I’ve read and written — might hold the key to solving the paradox. Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But on Thursday, when I arrived at Lincoln Center and saw rows of writers tapping away at their stations, I sensed a paradox of the modern runway. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week: @whatdidIjustsee 2011-09-09T02:42:57Z After Mr. Mercury’s death, Mr. May became an astrophysicist, a choice presaged by “'39,” a bouncy song, Mr. May explained onstage, about Einstein’s clock paradox. Queen + Adam Lambert Take On Madison Square Garden 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “The two contradictory ideas struggled to coexist peacefully. She was a paradox and knew how the poor cat trapped in Schrödinger’s box must have felt.” A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The title is intended to evoke a central paradox of the king of pop's multifaceted persona and changing musical styles. Cirque gives clues to Vegas Michael Jackson show 2013-02-21T21:21:08Z She is a hall of mirrors, a shrine of paradox. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z And Godard, the master of the gnomic epigram and perceptive paradox, once said: "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z "It's above all the incarnation of a paradox that, today, fuels our food culture," says Rubin, "one of those very working-class dishes that has taken a turn for the chic." Eggs and mayo is a way underrated French bistro dish 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The paradox at the center of the poem is exposed in a pared-down, intentionally simple grammar which is the very opposite of Ashbery’s sprawling informality. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z Camus, Ashbery, Bernhard… It's the familiar paradox whereby a genealogy powerfully suggests itself in a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z “Ostertag seems to be a paradox,” she said after the show. The Dress Doctor Is In 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Here’s the paradox of modern families: Thanks to DNA testing, we can know more accurately than ever who is closest to us biologically. What One Man Learned About Family from World's Biggest Family Reunion 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “Dear White People” brilliantly uses the complexities of Obama-era racial consciousness to explore a basic paradox of interpersonal interaction. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The American way of war is a paradox. The False and Dangerous Promise of Humane Wars 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z But it’s undergirded, the exhibition notes, by a paradox. How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade? 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The images add up to an affecting composite picture of a familiar modern paradox. In ‘Bird People,’ Two Unhappy Souls Cut Their Chains 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Hunger and obesity sometimes coexist in the same person, and "A Place at the Table" draws connections between this seeming paradox. Hungry Americans get "A Place at the Table" in new documentary 2013-03-01T20:37:58Z This paradox is not just about growing food but about how we interact with nature in general. Perspective | Want to save the planet? Think small. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z He’s staring into the paradox that Emily Dickinson articulated: As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z As a result, Disraeli: Or the Two Lives is full of unexpected jolts and paradoxes. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z "It's a strange paradox - but a very American one." Seeing read: Scarlett Johansson sues French novelist 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet, there is a paradox at the heart of the series. What ‘Harry & Meghan’ Still Doesn’t Say About Race 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s like one of those issues in physics, involving the uncertainty principle or the observational paradox. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Her face is a poignant paradox, both bone-tired and suffused with sensual radiance. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z Paul Dickson’s “Contraband Cocktails” opens with a paradox: “stylish, urbane ‘cocktail culture’ began to flower on the very date — January 16, 1920 — when mixed drinks and all other forms of alcohol became illegal.” ‘To Have and Have Another’: Ring in your new year as Hemingway might 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Grappling with slippery paradoxes of time and taste is what the Bard Music Festival does best. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Wrangham has been pondering this paradox in the twenty years since the publication of “Demonic Males,” and he has the first draft of an explanation. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z I think this is where God resides, in that inexplicable paradox. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Consisting mainly of three-dimensional objects, the exhibition focuses on comedic art’s structural properties like paradox, exaggerated scale and dysfunctional mechanics. ‘Puddle, pothole, portal’ at SculptureCenter in Queens 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The paradox about unhealthy eating has always been that it initially makes you feel good – it's satisfying, comforting and basically delicious – but in the long run it makes us feel bad. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z There can often be an element of the paradox of choice: sure, this match seems good, but what if an even better one is a swipe away? All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z This duplicity is, as the museum called it, part of the American paradox: a museum that represents both stagnancy and change, advancement and retrogression, black America and the rest. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Beautiful language that’s wedded to tales of adversity — the play is full of such paradoxes, another one being that “Confederates” is a work about racism that is truly funny. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z This is the paradox out of which his dark ironies grow. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, as far back as the ’60s, Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael had warned about the paradox of desegregation, the dangerous complacency borne from a false sense of inclusion. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z It's a paradox, maybe, to talk about it, but when you're working, it doesn't feel that way. ArtsBeat: Drawn From Life: Sheila Heti Talks About "How Should a Person Be?" 2012-07-11T15:44:33Z The paradox at the center of it all, of course, is Usher himself, whose brazen theatricality and caustic wit lies beneath his meek exterior. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s the familiar paradox of small Southern towns: The only way to move on from the past is to embrace it. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z “Long Strange Trip” opens with a savvy gambit that sums up this paradox of Deadheadery. I hate myself for loving the Dead movie 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The “paradox” of this term refers to the fact that, instead of shrinking away, the fat cells actually rebound and accumulate, causing fatty deposits to multiply and swell in the treated areas. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z "Her daydreams are all real," he says, relishing the paradox. Jean-Claude Carrière: 'If you want fame, don't be a screenwriter' 2012-06-28T20:00:02Z It is a paradox common to all wilderness writing. Found at Sea by Andrew Greig – review 2013-05-03T14:36:01Z It’s admittedly hokey and a little too convenient, but “11/22/63” isn’t envisioned as a work of sci-fi that’s preoccupied with relativity, paradoxes and other restrictions pop culture imposes on a make-believe phenomenon. What Hulu’s absorbing ‘11/22/63’ tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Subtle though After Life is, we are still left with the curious paradox of an opera that gains its power above all from real life – the least operatic element within it. After Life 2010-05-16T20:30:00Z The sign said the museum was open but it was not, a familiar Italian paradox. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z More consequentially, Price chooses not to grapple extensively with a somewhat stunning paradox: About 25 years ago, the trajectories of Aliquippa and Aliquippa football parted ways. This Season’s Books on Sports: A Roundup 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The paradox is that this will be good news for Britain. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z The paradox of the financially beleaguered Steve losing his religion while everybody else finds theirs is laid out as tidily as a PowerPoint presentation. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z By doing so, Lee has made a movie of bold and brilliant paradox. “BlacKkKlansman,” Reviewed: Spike Lee’s Vision of Resistance to White Supremacy 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Another paradox: The exit signs are bold and blurred; clear and confusing. How to say goodbye 2012-06-10T16:00:00Z It presents a metaphysical paradox, but also lays out honestly the subject of its discourse. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z “It’s a paradox and maybe I don’t articulate it very well,” he said. Film: Letting His Role Do the Talking 2010-12-03T15:53:00Z That ultimate paradox is a testament to Atkinson’s inventiveness as a storyteller, as well as to her powers for creating characters too real for comfort. Review | Kate Atkinson’s new spy novel toys with our expectations 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z It's like a grand unified theorem of ontological paradox stories. Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books 2010-10-20T09:29:00Z Cuba is a nation of paradoxes and contradictions, frozen in time but with a population eager to join the 21st century. Cultural Cuba: an arts tourist’s notebook 2014-02-06T00:49:23Z There's always been an unspoken paradox of sorts for women, people of color and all marginalized identities, who are often the one, token member of their community in a number of settings. "Never Have I Ever" explores complexity of sharing space among women of color 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z That’s a paradox common to all art forms — great suppression creates great force — but here, the feeling is intensified by the paradox of the puppets. Three Dramas Explore the Margins of the Digital Form 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z It is something of a paradox that the divided casting also results in caricature, as the actors overcompensate, in a way Smith never did, for the difficulty of achieving contrast. Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The experience paradox is part of the problem. Want More Diverse Conductors? Orchestras Should Look to Assistants. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z These delays highlight the paradox and the pleasure of film festivals. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Movie impersonation is something of a paradox, he says. Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock 2012-12-09T18:59:01Z Sontag’s story is the largest cage of paradoxes. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z But how on earth does one explain this paradox? Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z They are living paradoxes yet presented without comment or explanation. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Her quest takes her from Athens and Pompeii to Manhattan and Malibu as she confronts the paradox of ownership and wrestles with conflicting evidence. Who Owns the Elgin Marbles? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Some may not have even recognized her as the same actress in “Unbelievable,” as the roles were so different in subject and tone; Dever said she loved the paradox. 2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: Dever shined in TV and film 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But “Hamlet” is a play of paradoxes, and perhaps the greatest of these is that the protagonist who reveals more of his mind than any other in Shakespeare remains something of an impenetrable mystery. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Do they see the paradox when Paige announced that she was inspired by Jesus, who sacrificed himself for the greater good? 'The Americans' Recap: Season 2 Ends With an Answer (Jared) and a Question (Paige) 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z A paradox of the Rock ’n Play, and of infant “sleep aides” and “sleep guides” in general, is that, to some extent, these products are intended to solve a problem that should not be solved. The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The best generals live with and react to paradoxes, Gaddis argues. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z That Hendrix paradox is at the heart of "Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin'" a documentary in the "American Masters" series that airs on PBS on Tuesday. Short life, lasting legacy of Jimi Hendrix chronicled in new film 2013-11-04T13:59:23Z Block’s own story provides an unintentional clue to this paradox. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Given that Greece is one of the most ancient wine-producing cultures, that seems like a bit of a paradox. For Greek Reds, No Matter How Good, the Embrace Will Be Slow 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Orange, 36, seems at home with those sorts of paradoxes and contradictions. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z AN: You talk about the paradox of the market — how the market erodes stability and promotes anxiety, and then turns around and provides relief from that anxiety. Our outsourced lives 2012-08-15T15:37:00Z Of course, we all need help in order to become independent — that’s one of the paradoxes by which we live. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z This eerie paradox is a fertile one to explore. Review: In Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me,’ Gymnast Girl and Cute Dead Guy 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Now, in a spatial paradox worthy of M. C. Escher, her move back east seems a step down again—not least because of her own institution-building powers. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The residents of the sprawling Dadaab camp in northern Kenya are living paradoxes: nationals of no nation, refugees who in many cases are also natives — born and raised in a state of anguished waiting. Dadaab refugee camp, detailed in 'City of Thorns,' is a world ripped from the world 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s a trick, in a way, or a feint, because in the final display, Kwong lets the orchid’s paradoxes explode into full view. Orchids Take Their Star Turn at the New York Botanical Garden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But the fact of Onkalo points in the direction of mystery and paradox. | 'Into Eternity': Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers 2011-02-01T22:51:58Z They’ve become a familiar sight across the country, embodying our quest for that all-American paradox of affordable luxury, yet also frequently criticized for unsound construction and tacky design. Why we love to hate McMansions, but still buy them 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Yet Rishikesh itself provided a strange paradox in extremes: while it was a vacation from modernity for those like me, many locals often struggled for the bare necessities, let alone Wi-Fi access. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Ariza attributes this paradox to a “river of funny money that flows” in from offshore financing and investment, which overinflates property values, displaces affordable housing and puts pressure on the water-choked infrastructure. Will Miami Be Around in 2067? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The paradox is that we see American history taking shape in this display of nearly 200 artifacts, but its shape is almost exuberantly shapeless. Exhibition Review: ‘In Pursuit of a Vision,’ at the Grolier Club 2012-09-11T21:57:05Z The war years offer, perhaps, the best paradox of all. The Genius of Design: TV makes the plastic fantastic 2010-06-02T14:07:00Z And her laconic new lyrics don’t always offer the subtleties and paradoxes of her earlier songs. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z The Berlin in which Leamas had his being was a paradigm of human folly and historical paradox. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z And that paradox — the synthesis of casual airiness and spotless precision — is the key to Brown's appeal. Trisha Brown Dance Company delights with perpetual motion 2011-04-01T16:53:04Z He delights in shaping and extending the fantasy, and furthering the paradox by placing his shadow-world in a "chink" of water, a mere puddle "which a dry ox or horse might drink." Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z That’s the beautiful, terrible paradox of this movie: only as its heroes are driven to extremes of desperation, courage and resilience do they experience passions and pleasures that might have been part of ordinary life. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The paradox for the artists is that without their 25-year effort in caring for the building, Lambeth would most likely not have the asset to sell. Lambeth council lambasted for arts centre sale 2012-02-13T18:00:01Z Composed in 1976, these six pieces are living, breathing musical paradoxes. How a young Kazakh violinist dared to take on Sciarrino's Caprices ? and won 2010-09-30T13:37:00Z A number of plot developments and character choices create paradoxes and internal inconsistencies or raise unanswered questions about how events in this movie may or may not have altered those in the previous 21 films. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z This is a central paradox of L.A. architecture: The buildings that sum up the city most fully do so because they’re detached enough to give a view of the seemingly endless whole. I told my mother-in-law I'd plan an L.A. architecture tour for her 80th birthday. But what buildings to choose? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z That sort of paradox is central to Didion’s work: She takes a ruin and in prose makes it whole and beautiful. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Nowadays, amid controversies around civil forfeiture and “driving while black,” many of us recognize the paradoxes at the heart of the deeply American, and deeply alluring, trope of the open highway. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z On a recent visit here, I was struck by this paradox. Louisville Wrestles With Freeway Dilemma 2012-09-26T14:52:51Z Cohn was a paradox, and so is this documentary — a brisk, entertaining, quite full primer that nevertheless feels like it missed an opportunity for a unique angle or approach. ‘Bully. Coward. Victim.’ Review: The Paradox of Roy Cohn 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z So does great art, which is why the paradox at the heart of this remarkable show — it’s a comedy arguing against comedy — actually elevates it. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Teddy is a time-traveler whose job is to eliminate paradoxes that threaten reality. 10 Comic Books to Celebrate Pride 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Maybe that taming is part of the point: there is something about Old Faithful that seems to encapsulate all the passions and paradoxes of national parks. A Shrine That It Seems to Tame Old Faithful 2010-08-30T17:28:00Z What is more, as with so many issues that surround women and beauty and aging and sex, there is a paradox today that seems to strike women of the postfeminist generation with a particular force. Aging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z At the core of the movie are two paradoxes: How does an artist whose work relies at least partly on self-erasure direct a self-baring autobiography? Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The supplementary paradox of The Time Of Our Lives involves the chaos we create for ourselves in trying to avert chaos. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z “The paradox is the United States of America puts more freight on rail than any other industrialized nation,” he says. Ride the rails with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry: “You never hear anybody talking about a lonesome car alarm, do you, playing in a distance” 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z It's a paradox of sorts: The leader of the right-wing populist movement is socially superior to his worshipers, yet is also understood to be "just like them." Decoding “the first Twitter president”: Mathematician Anthony Bonato on the science of Trump... 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s a paradox that through the attempt to reconstruct Beethoven’s own ideal, imaginary orchestra, it brings his music closer into our present world. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z When it had its premiere in 2018 in Milan, Mr. Kurtag’s first opera captured the paradox of its composer’s best music: a sense of unsettled serenity. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The rest is paradox: a street kid recognized for precocious brilliance from early childhood, a wild child widely and deeply educated in artistic craft and tradition, an instant celebrity who was temperamentally shy. Let’s Pause to Appreciate Basquiat’s Hundred-Million-Dollar Painting 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z This ability of the series to make such paradoxes coexist is the cornerstone of its originality. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z This is a neat distillation of the gangster rap paradox by a rapper who is as savvy about the multiple constituencies he’s performing for as any before him. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The Venice Biennale is a paradox – the world's most famous showcase of contemporary art staged by a city frozen in time. The real heart of the Venice Biennale 2011-03-17T10:21:28Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian It is a perennial paradox. Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared' 2012-07-04T17:36:06Z “I lived a paradox, believing that the drug was indispensable to my very survival while also knowing that it was nothing short of toxic,” she wrote. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Benji’ and ‘Jane the Virgin’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “It calls out the paradox of rooting for this mascot, a caricature of a Native American, and how outdated caricatures live on through marketing,” Mr. Rivers said. After an N.F.L. Career, Keith Rivers Is Exploring Another Field 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z It leaves the audience to intuit the paradox of a woman born into comfortable circumstances who, while easing the suffering of the poor, did little to help prevent their poverty. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z It is a place of paradox and contradiction. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Felder so emphasizes pathos and paradox that joy and simplicity — Berlin hallmarks — do not seem to exist. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The musical moves with a dreamlike logic, and, as is the case with all of her work, features jarring shifts in tone and an embrace of paradox. A ‘Barbie From Outer Space’ Touches Down on a New Stage 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It's this way that people find themselves being slightly different, examining some sort of like personal growth, and accepting the paradox that exists inside themselves. As Mark Duplass makes his "Room 104" swan song, he carries its diverse vision to future projects 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z As ever, the paradox of Mr. Verhoeven’s style is that it seems to wallow in tastelessness and transgression even as he remains one of the most classical movie craftsmen. Review: ‘Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked,’ a Documentary and a Farce 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z My reaction to these glitches parallels the larger paradox of this technology. Perspective | Ai Weiwei succumbs to the tyranny of fun 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Liszt, like his music, was constructed of paradoxes, as he well knew. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z It's the banned-movie paradox: In order to reach maximum interest, it has to achieve minimal viewing. Sony's North Korea film 'The Interview': Can it achieve cult status? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Catwoman is traditionally something of an antihero rather than a full-on villain, a character created by Bob Kane to personify the sublime paradox of male fear and attraction towards the opposite sex. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z She examines the paradox of a system designed to exclude black lives that would not exist without them. Ten books to read in July 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Is it a merely a less than subtle ironic comment on the paradox of asking viewers to invest themselves in contrived fictional entertainments? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z And yet the very earnestness with which Paik tried to graft new technologies onto varieties of spiritual awareness chimes with a paradox I lately detect at the heart of today’s big tech. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The paradoxes that existed for both the slavers and the enslaved are skillfully examined. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Debut Novel Mingles History and Fantasy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The paradox is that the world’s newest theatrical fountains are using leading-edge, digitally begotten technology to create a consummately physical form of entertainment. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z A reality TV competition that doesn’t cut contestants may seem like a paradox. Lizzo’s ‘Big Grrrls’ Asks Big Questions 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The paradox is that those features, with increasing speed, migrate from the theater to the living room. Film: 3-D Abounds, but What?s the Frenzy Really About? 2010-05-08T02:49:00Z As Madonna once said, “Life is a paradox.” Billy Eichner Wrote Himself Into the Romance He Wanted With ‘Bros’ 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z And that’s a lamentable paradox, because it’s the reason the entertainment industry is so hermetic. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z No matter how likable he is, you may, for example, get tired of seeing his duplicates pop up over and over again in scenes to demonstrate one quantum paradox or another. Television Review: ?The Fabric of the Cosmos? on PBS?s ?Nova? - Review 2011-11-01T22:43:25Z Not the least of the paradoxes of this craze, which you might also call a wildly overhyped trend, is that simply pronouncing it is almost impossible for British tongues. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z That’s where another paradox of the current movie environment—and of its history—arises. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z On July 27, as she has done for 16 straight summers, Donna Karan hosted Super Saturday, which transforms that Hamptons paradox into a daylong multimillion-dollar force for progress. Donna Karan's Haute $3.5 Million Hampton's Garage Sale 2013-09-05T13:02:00Z While it’s a paradox that welcoming outsiders and trying out hybrids is a survival tactic for a deeply local tradition, that’s a fact of life for present-day New Orleans. Music Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-08T23:16:20Z It’s a paradox; it’s like having a miracle — a miracle is tough and messy and time-consuming . Anne Lamott: “The grace of this world is hilariously huge” 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Critics note the paradox of a transition from mining to eco-tourism. Walkabout: More Travel Warnings in Kenya; Luring Tourists to Appalachia 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In that final moment, corny and profound, Dylan makes the foundational paradox of his music feel clear: Whenever he holds his mirror up to that failing thing called America, he has to see himself, too. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The paradox of Skid Row is that it is both a dumping ground and a refuge for the down and out. Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It's the paradox of using technology to disconnect from technology. Arianna Huffington: 'Bernard Levin told me that going to bed with him was a liberal education' 2012-07-14T23:06:38Z It threatens to reduce fields of operation whose energies are characterized by their multifariousness, their expansiveness, their paradox — what you called “negative capability” earlier. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z And here, it seems, is the paradox of the Easter Festival. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z “It’s a ghastly moment in history, and it’s a paradox that this horrible thing would have such an aesthetic memorial,” Kraus said, gazing at El Pintor’s books, the colors still vibrant after 80 years. Colorful Stories for Children, With the Darkest History as Backdrop 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z For Groom, to understand this paradox is to understand vampires. Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z This love of paradox makes me impatient for this new creation. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “The paradox is that we are being very collaborative and social by mutually agreeing to stay six feet away from each other,” he said. Is ‘social distancing’ the wrong term? Expert prefers ‘physical distancing,’ and the WHO agrees. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z It is, above all, a work of absorbing theater, which uses the immediacy of that art to conjure the paradoxes and confusions of a world dealing with an unprecedented flux of uprooted lives. ‘The Jungle’ Review: Migrants’ Heartbreaking Search for Home in Calais 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “Amnesty” excels at the portrayal of this apparent paradox: In order to be invisible among these people, Danny must observe them obsessively. An Undocumented Immigrant Has Information About a Murder. What to Do? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It works so well because young women are so often in the grip of self-criticism; learning the delicate paradox of excelling at being secondary.” Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously, with equal force. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Jazz is always music of the few and the many, the future and the past; those paradoxes don’t resolve. Hot Sets and Warm Chilly Nights at NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z So when the people are real, the places are fake, and when the places are real, the people are fake — a paradox that nests perfectly with Ulmer’s theme of loss of identity. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Our Man Flint,’ ‘White Zombie’ 2013-01-25T23:58:36Z Exploring ambiguity and paradox may not be a particularly American trait. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z There is an important paradox here that I would like to stress: the greater the autobiographical content of a fiction writer's work, the smaller its superficial resemblance to the writer's actual life. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z In this game, the biggest collectors receive the best deals, which, several in the industry said, has led to an auction house paradox: The pricier the artwork, the lower the profit margin. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Woo Big Sellers With a Cut 2014-01-15T23:08:22Z Stiles "The Fist Tycoon" explores the life of the steamship and railroad tycoon, whom Stiles describes as "a paradox - both a creator and a destroyer." The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z The paradox is that the more fruiting plants one grows and cultivates to abundance, the greater the rise in the chipmunk population. Birds, chipmunks, snakes, insects: At some point, the gardener feels like an intruder 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z His movies are personal and also political, as he aims his quizzical gaze at the petty hypocrisies and large injustices of modern Iran, as well as at the paradoxes of his own creative practice. ‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Through low doors of gnarled timber, each guarded by a trusted monk in a burgundy cowl, Likir’s shrines achieve the curious paradox of being colorful and foreboding all at once. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Watching Yeoh in both films, particularly within the context of the awards season campaign she’s currently undergoing, is to see two bookends to the paradox that is her career. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z She is an energetic, industrious personification of the marvelous paradoxes that contemporary commercial music encompasses. Movie Review: ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me’ Follows the Pop Singer’s 2011 Tour 2012-07-04T15:48:36Z The only problem — or, rather, the characteristic paradox — is that “Sebaldian” would have to mean something like “systematically resistant to classification.” Movie Review: ?Patience (After Sebald),? a Documentary 2012-05-08T22:32:23Z A singing comic rooted in music hall tradition, he is also a disciple of Oscar Wilde, issuing satiric paradoxes with the same gusto with which Edna tosses gladioli into her audiences. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z There’s a mild paradox that this entirely digital movie waxes so nostalgic for analog-age stuff: Art Deco diners, big-knob radios, funky garages. Review: In ‘Cars 3,’ Lightning McQueen Faces an Existential Crisis 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z PB: It’s not a paradox; it’s a complication. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z It also takes place in a region where the paradox of poverty and progress are sharply illuminated. First Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix Underway 2011-10-29T18:45:26Z Provocative and profligate, appalling and dazzling, this show tests your ability to accommodate paradox. A Feast of ‘Killer Shoes’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of our time is that the “war on terror” has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z That a region of such transcendent beauty was the site of some of the 20th-century’s most savage and prolonged warfare is just one of the many unsettling paradoxes suggested by Hylton’s book. Vanished: Diving into a Real-Life WWII Mystery 2013-11-06T10:45:00Z A burgeoning number of literary novelists are caught in a creative paradox: How do we write about the climate crisis? An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Here's a paradox: Today's art lovers would recoil at the thought of travel disasters, building collapses or volcanic eruptions afflicting their own communities. The paradox of 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty: Disasters rescued these ancient bronzes 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Like other Pixar films, “Soul” is aware of its own paradoxes. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The project explored a paradox: that an iconic symbol of American freedom also causes thousands of deaths per year. Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty 2010-03-31T16:05:00Z I was scared because I am that paradox of person who wants to be Lucille Ball, but who wants to be invisible.” Bullock, Roberts Crowned at Hollywood Film Awards 2013-10-22T15:14:20Z As Appalachian cooking grows increasingly popular outside the region, the couple are navigating a paradox. Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z In doing so it has become a place full of the kind of paradoxes that occur whenever a very old place grinds against the very new. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z For mind-bending paradoxes, it’s hard to beat quantum physics, the subject of the final selection, “Touchdown,” a solo by the Taiwanese mathematician-turned-choreographer Hao Cheng. Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z I think it's a fascinating paradox when you, in this case me, look back at your past and you understand on a genetic level, that you are that person, apart from maybe some epigenetic variables. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z In the shape of the fabricated boy, the movie presents to us an age-old paradox of art. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z There’s a kernel of a bright idea in that paradox, but, alas, the movie isn’t about Avery, or especially bright. Review: ‘I Feel Pretty’ Doesn’t Even Go Skin Deep 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It's a paradox Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and the author of Our Dogs, Ourselves, claims has its roots in our own narcissism as a species. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Even the film’s pace—frenetic yet glacial—makes you acutely aware of temporal paradoxes. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The paradox of Mr. Noonan’s utterly compassionate performance is how strongly it compels us to look: to see Douglas, to ache for him. Theater Review: ‘The Shape of Something Squashed’ Takes a Poke at Actors 2014-03-05T18:04:22Z These paradoxes vex Lahiri, but she knows they are one wellspring of her creativity. Jhumpa Lahiri falls in love with language again, exquisitely, by writing in Italian 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z That’s the paradox of the aging consumer, and it helps explain why P&G’s Live Well initiative hasn’t notched a dollar of sales yet. Aging boomers befuddle global marketers eying $15 trillion prize 2013-09-17T15:27:00Z It embodies the paradox, inertia, specter, bargain and cost of nuclear weapons, especially at a moment like this. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Cohen bravely raises the paradox of a culture in which "transparency" and public confession seemingly go hand in hand with an idealising of privacy. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z The film’s central paradox, Schrader says, is the “tautology of the jihadist: that there is such a thing as a ‘glorious’ suicide.” Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z This paradox shows that Eastwood-the-filmmaker is far greater and more important than Eastwood-the-talker—and that the essence of the art of cinema is for movies to surpass and even defy filmmakers’ intentions. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The paradox: Although poised and intentional, these moments appear candid and natural, as though if you weren’t here to witness them right now you might just miss them. Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Essentially, without rules governing what can or cannot happen, any number of paradoxes can arise from characters’ forays into the past — people can even be “un-born.” The Trouble With Time Travel in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Talking about the difficulties of identifying with her subject, Morgan illustrates the inherent paradox of taxidermy. Polly Morgan's wings of desire 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Which, given that he had a photographic memory, was another paradox. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z "But I think it's not a paradox," she offers. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z That's the paradox: live requires rigorous preparation to look as if it's off-the-cuff. David Trent – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T16:08:45Z Of course, as Lego itself admits, making a more girl-friendly version of a “masculine” toy in order to reach girls is something of a paradox. Motherlode Blog: Lego Goes After Girls 2011-12-20T16:00:56Z He prefers to embody that paradox of his profession, whereby the best acting is simply about being. Review: In Shakespeare, When to Underact? 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z The defining paradox of what’s come to be known as the “Trump-Russia scandal” is that it’s both the most-covered story of the Trump presidency and the one that, broadly speaking, seems to interest voters least. 'The story goes so far back': new film attempts to untangle Russiagate 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Interest in Mrs. Bratescu’s work centers on a paradox she is reticent to talk about: She worked freely as an artist in a period of political repression. Still Making Art, and Sly Jokes, at Age 91 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z That’s a good summation of the paradox of vérité, for which it’s rarely possible to conclude when the camera has turned subjects into performers. Does Cinéma Vérité Exist? Watch These 2 Movies to Find Out 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z That seems to me one of the most hopeful things about Anglicanism: it is an arena for paradox. Our Church by Roger Scruton – review 2013-06-19T11:29:56Z Perfectly pitched and rhythmically coiled around a muted or modest paradox – spring, conventionally the harbinger of hope, brings only criticism of a personal sort. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z She knew what a vision of paradox she was offering, what a sense of noble naïveté she risked exposing, because such holy foolishness is the very subject of the movie’s heroic and tragic drama. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But before all that, if you listen to the verses he spits, it’s clear that the puzzles and paradoxes of identity are the wellsprings of his art. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The wonderful paradox of farce," he says, "is that there's a double image going on on stage. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Herein lies a central paradox of the news: it gives us the tools to develop views on serious and consequential decisions which have a direct impact on our lives. Outrage is actually optimism: We’re mad because people should be better 2014-02-22T16:00:00Z Using clever pastiche and paradox to question American assumptions of supremacy, it is always working on many levels, as you can hear on the cast album scheduled to be released on April 17. What Is the Sound of a Theater Season Interrupted? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Unlike the blunt social media posts of Ye and Irving, this set was a work of art, elusive and layered, displaying finesse and paradox. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The paradox for me is that while the artistic health of Broadway has suffered in the last decade, its influence has grown greater, especially in the nonprofit realm in which all of you are producing. A Tony Awards round table with L.A.-area theater leaders 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Mahler's career as a composer ends with a paradox. BBCPhil/Noseda 2010-06-08T21:31:00Z During a cozy moment with Philippe — who is also her lover — he observes that Patience is a paradox: so fragile, and yet has a self-confidence that impresses. In "Mama Weed," Isabelle Huppert is a stylish drug dealer with a twist: "She's a female Robin Hood" 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The innate paradox: It can be everything and nothing all at once. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z He was a marvelous paradox: an alienated Everyman, a dignified buffoon, an avatar of ordinary Italianness menaced on one side by modern materialism and on the other by the encrusted legacies of feudalism and fascism. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z I understand the paradox of advising women to change the world by adhering to its biased rules and expectations. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-13T11:18:53Z He plays Daniel Pierce, a brilliant neuroscientist with — paradox alert — a full-blown case of schizophrenia. Television Review: ‘Perception’ With Eric McCormack on TNT 2012-07-08T18:32:52Z Drawing on The Iliad, it's a rich, complex piece, in some respects a thing of paradoxes, but also typical of its composer in its often relentless philosophical and psychological probing. King Priam – review 2012-05-29T16:53:42Z A paradox of the book is that Slaughter believes nothing will change without men seeing the trade-offs of caregiving and breadwinning as their urgent task. Anne-Marie Slaughter's 'Unfinished Business' takes a clear-eyed look at gender inequality and work 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The thematic variation on which “Anesthesia” focuses is the cruel paradox of living in a world of life-enhancing technological miracles that don’t begin to fulfill our yearning for a more purposeful, satisfying existence. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Before Midnight” is a wonderful paradox: a movie passionately committed to the ideal of imperfection that is itself very close to perfect. Movie Review: ‘Before Midnight,’ With Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 2013-05-23T16:15:43Z How did the paradox of the universe, full of prismatic galaxies and endless emptiness, come to be? Gucci Gives New Meaning to the Contemporary Obsession With Stars 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox because what could be happy in a play about pain? Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z There’s no end of paradox in Hollywood’s patronizing attitude toward female viewers, especially given the long-held marketing truism that in a date-night situation, the woman’s vote typically holds more sway than the man’s. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Such is the paradox of puppets, inanimate objects that are a portal to the imagination and a direct line to the heart. Zvi Sahar’s 'Salt of the Earth' at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Not only is the waiting uncomfortable; it is virtually impossible to forecast an outcome amid all the emerging paradoxes. Does a young millennial entering this economy have anything to look forward to? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It is a pretty paradox to sit down and let your metabolism go comatose while a programme shouts at you about being fat. TV OD with Sara Pascoe: The Hairy Dieters 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z Call it the Owen Wilson paradox: The more we like seeing actors in a certain type of role, the more they book these types of gigs. 'Tammy': Is Melissa McCarthy stuck in a creative 'Groundhog Day'? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z It understands that the paradoxes are who she is. Is the Statue of Liberty the world's largest drag queen? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But her own statement, full of paradoxes and possibilities, is as good as any in describing how light, space and form function in her watercolors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z This inherent paradox, of feeling one thing and saying another, leaves etiquette open to the charge of insincerity. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Options for those who have no options—a paradox, which is the point. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z “Relying largely on extensive interviews with defectors,” Mr. Kristof wrote, “Martin portrays North Korean life with a clarity that is stunning, and he captures the paradoxes in North Korean public opinion.” ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-28T22:38:00Z The paradox is bound up in the title. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z He notes the apparent paradox that Trump — like many fascist politicians — rode to power in part by attacking government “corruption,” yet practices it even more brazenly himself. Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, here is a solution to the Fermi paradox: the aliens have detected us, but don’t want to come close, for fear of Earth’s smell. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z “It’s this paradox, given that we’re all in this together, that I’m going to be there one day, and we’re making these comments.” It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The paradox is that the projected wall and hand are immaterial. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z The paradox of Hanks is that he is pure Hollywood star quality mixed with self-effacement and it works very well in a drama where the huge impacts of warfare distract you from the acting. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In a seeming paradox, by being regarded as war-won booty, escaped slaves could be “confiscated” and thus freed. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z But isn’t there something insufferable about this tyranny of the verb to be, and the rhetorical recourse, always, to reversal or paradox? The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The abiding paradox of Washington’s hardcore punk scene is that it’s wildly turbulent yet stubbornly evergreen. Chris Moore keeps the District’s punk scene sounding loud (and clear) 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z These contrasting paint textures give the works a firm foothold in reality and reward up-close viewing, which enmeshes the eye in both their spatial paradoxes and everyday moods. Art In Review: MERNET LARSEN: ‘Three Chapters’ 2012-10-04T21:09:17Z The structure, though, is clearly encouraged by the subject-matter: Encephalitis lethargica represents a paradox of consciousness, in which the patient, though in medico-legal terms still here, is predominantly somewhere else. Umbrella by Will Self – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z The paradox of the situation has not been lost on its director, George A. Romero. Guess What’s Back From the Grave? ‘Night of the Living Dead’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z During the 1990s, scientists became interested in the French paradox – the now discredited observation that heart disease rates were low in France despite a national diet high in saturated fats. The dark truth about chocolate 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z He relished paradox but was never, past his early thirties, cruel. How Jonathan Gold Stretched Food Criticism to Encompass Everything 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The paradox of wisdom begetting grief, which goes to the heart of life's joyful yet arduous journey, is at the core of Jess' artistic production. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The whole thing threatens to collapse into paradox: your view of someone else’s circumstances as more appealing arises from a perspective shaped entirely by your own interests and values. Fancy a life swap with Donald Trump? No, thanks | Oliver Burkeman 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Still, the paradox of Beyoncé has meant that even as she has slipped somewhat on the charts, her larger cultural prestige has remained supreme, driven by the mystique and grandeur she brings to each project. Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The delayed reaction illustrates a paradox about TMZ: Although it has been quite reliable on many major stories, mainstream news sources are reluctant to rely on its say-so alone. TMZ was first — again. Will its word alone ever be good enough for traditional media? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z This is believed to be a reference to the physics paradox Schrödinger's Cat, a thought experiment created by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In flashbacks, “Da 5 Bloods” captures the paradox of being a black soldier fighting for the U.S. while the Civil Rights movement raged back home. What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z In this case the headline-making price and the anonymous buyer made that paradox and its manipulative aspects especially clear. The Coy Art of the Mystery Bidder 2010-05-08T18:32:00Z Like all great art, the piece is filled with paradox and ambiguity. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z The paradox, it seems, is that I thought when the pandemic started, people would say: “Oh well, don’t worry me about what’s going to happen in 50, 100 years’ time. David Attenborough Still Has Hope for Our Future 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Well, I probably missed references, and "the paradox" lost me, but then a paradox nearly always does. TV review: Doctor Who; The Thick Of It 2012-09-30T11:00:02Z Mr. McAnally presents a paradox: a Nashville powerhouse who is also an out gay man — a songwriter who cooks up chart-topping country songs at the home he shares with his husband and their 5-month-old twins. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z Much of the novel is presented in anecdotal diary entries, epistles and paraphrased episodes; the quotidian and the political continually exchange their paradoxes. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Each of these factors hints at the paradox of Murphy's public persona, the entertainment mogul who also wants to change the way Hollywood operates and thinks. The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z But he was a fine writer with an acute sense of the nuances and paradoxes of German society. Right to write 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z This is the painful paradox of the moment: One of the great modern conveniences is capable of propagating mass inconvenience. Perspective | We’ve lost our luggage, and our minds 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Benway’s unforgettable novel explores the paradoxes and entanglements of unconventional families through the story of three biological half-siblings who don’t meet until their teens. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s a painful paradox that improving pay for the festival’s professional staff means having fewer shows and thus less opportunity for them to practice their craft. When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z One more paradox is that they are also listeners as much as actors or characters or seers. Getting down to the basics in Peter Brook's 'Battlefield' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z As this naturalized notion of the mind began to spread, some sought to push aside the paradoxes of God-given thinking matter and map out a fully natural model. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z That paradox is crystallized in “One More Kiss,” warbled by an ancient Viennese soprano while her younger self casually tosses off its coloratura. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z His buttoned-up temperament, though, makes him a perfect representative of the paradox of space travel, a wildly poetic venture undertaken by men whose survival depended on the prose of memos and the music of calculus. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s a paradox, but don’t let that keep you awake. Sleep: how much do you really get? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Romantic Puzzles in Need of Solving The mischievous paradox of Matías Piñeiro’s “Viola” is that it is at once devilishly complicated and perfectly simple. Movie Review: In ‘Viola,’ Shakespeare Is Lens to Look at Young Argentines 2013-07-11T21:39:22Z Robert Olshansky, emeritus professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sees a paradox in the term social distancing. Is ‘social distancing’ the wrong term? Expert prefers ‘physical distancing,’ and the WHO agrees. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z It was a career made by the Revolution’s promise of liberation, and—in a bitter paradox—a career that flourished under its subsequent restrictions. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Nuttall raises a “paradox of democracy” posited by philosopher Karl Popper: “What is one to do when the demos, the people, freely decides to resign its power to a despot?” The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But in matters of the heart, with their complications and paradoxes, Beyoncé joins all of us. Review: Beyoncé Makes ‘Lemonade’ Out of Marital Strife 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of Knausgaard’s work is that in dwelling so intensely on his own memories he restores — and I would almost say blesses — the reader’s own. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In the series’ best parts, Ms. Goldberg engages a paradox: Meyerism may be an exploitative scam, but its members believe and want to do good with it, even the corrupt Cal. Review: In ‘The Path,’ a Cult Is Only as Strong as Its Following 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Poems like “You Kindly” capture two brilliant paradoxes that run through Olds’s work. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Shadow Drawing” doesn’t offer the conventional satisfactions of biography: the evocation of Leonardo’s world, his paradoxes and idiosyncrasies, that famous fondness for solitude and rose-pink tunics. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z For an artist whose main tools are the body and space, that concept presented a paradox: “How do I choreograph a void into being?” he said. Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: Surveillance and the Black Experience 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z And that creates what researchers call an abundance paradox. Tips for Every Age: How to Raise Grateful Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z He believes that the scriptures must be taken at their word, rather than being allowed to flourish as many-layered parables, teeming with quarrels, follies, jokes, reversals and paradoxes. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z “This room is the paradox of that. It’s full of humanity, full of laughter, full of women.” 'I see myself in them': the documentary that humanizes sex workers 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And always this paradox: If you want to know why one of his paintings works so well, look for all the reasons it shouldn’t work. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death Ancestors are a paradox: They are you, and they are not. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Such paradoxes and ironies are common in Amos' music, especially when it comes to love, which is usually for someone distant, whether in The Cure's "Love Song," or her own songs, such as "I000 Oceans." Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z It’s a wondrous paradox that the most powerful spoken words make us conscious of their ultimate limits. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z This disparity, and lag, represent the paradox of the moment. As TV Seeks Diverse Writing Ranks, Rising Demand Meets Short Supply 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a reminder of a crucial paradox of great art, in which precise craft becomes a vehicle for profound mystery. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But the paradox of Trump is that major media organisations are galvanised in their work and booming in terms of readers and viewers. David Simon: ‘If you’re not consuming porn, you’re still consuming its logic’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Piper realizes the rare and inspired paradox of an artfully controlled portrait of someone losing every last vestige of self-control. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Whether “too much” of a drama queen is a paradox, she doesn’t explain. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Sadly, neither of these authors discusses how to deal with this paradox. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The writer-director, Hadas Ben Aroya, seems interested in how hedonistic lifestyles can lubricate certain forms of intimacy while hindering others, and she conveys this paradox through a series of patient long takes. ‘All Eyes Off Me’ Review: Scenes of Seduction 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Its reliability is something of a paradox, since each year the festival changes music directors. Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z There's a hubris and an insecurity that certainly is a contradiction, a paradox, but that's how it is. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z There’s a chapter about the paradox of the cooperating witness, who’s high in information and low in character — “the linchpin of your case is also your Achilles’ heel.” Preet Bharara’s Lessons on Crime and Punishment 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Following Roth’s novel, the film is concerned with a particular paradox of being, as he once put it, “serious in the fifties”: the tendency toward libertinism. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Writing is an act of communication, and that’s the paradox at the heart of Emily — while we think of her as this absolute loner, no writer can be satisfied as a loner. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the worst kind of pop culture paradox. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a mess: Why does the induction committee have such bad taste? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “We’re in a strange paradox as viewers: Do we even want to see her escape? That would deny the satisfaction of watching her work,” Walsh wrote. Name to know: ‘Escape Room’ franchise star Taylor Russell 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This being Wilde, the expression of those conflicts can seem purely decorative and inconsequential at first, a heap of jeweled epigrams and paradoxes. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The most persuasive version I’ve ever seen, from Fiasco Theater in 2014, refrained from interpretive gloss, and let the play’s paradoxes speak eloquently for themselves. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And therein, she says, lies the paradox of how some autocratic figures were worshiped democratically, against their own will: “General MacArthur was American destruction incarnate, and he was four ways of imagining the earth renewed.” A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Such paradoxes, Farahani's movie suggests, are as essential as anything when trying to convey the worth of an artist. 'Fifi Howls From Happiness' ventures into artist's exile 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Yet there's a paradox – horror and violence in the theatre is often at its most unbearable when least shown. Stage fright: which plays have left you reeling in horror? 2012-10-11T13:37:50Z The newspaper prints accumulate text to the point of collapse, an acknowledgment of language’s paradox, its capacity to at once reveal and conceal. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z "Children navigating through postcode wars/In estates with the least funding/ Look at the state of East London: that's a paradox/Witness economy booming for the have-a-lots." BBC Sound of 2015 longlist revealed 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z To put it another way, “There are no paradoxes in time travel, there can’t be.” Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Invoking Mr. Snowden, the composer noted the paradox between recent anger over government surveillance and the willingness of consumers to give information to advertisers. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z This paradox, which the sociologist Shamus Khan has described as “a more diverse elite within a more unequal world,” is laid carefully bare in “Admissions.” A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The film builds suspense as viewers also will Ricky to stop - highlighting the paradox of a labor system where, in theory at least, contractors enjoy the freedom to do as they please. Cannes critics warm to Ken Loach's dig at gig economy 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z He relishes the paradoxes his characters inhabit and embody. Yes, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But at its best, the genre tries to understand the roots of crime by investigating some of humanity’s most vexing paradoxes. Netflix’s 'Mindhunter' Is the Perfect Crime Drama for Our Times 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of island life, especially on a posh island like Bermuda, is that it’s easy to become land-focused. In Bermuda, Memories Made and Found on a Moped 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The real paradox is middle-aged women expected to look 30 years younger than they are. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z You begin and end the book with Q&A sections: Are those to show that criticism is about paradox and self-doubt as much as anything? Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z And the final paradox of the episode is that his only shot at getting that with Pamela is accepting that he might never. REVIEW: Louie Watch: Going All In 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Covers chronological flow, looped causality and temporal paradoxes. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick! It is often said that Aida means all things to all people, and the divergent responses it provokes are often put down to a series of paradoxes within it. David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z One might even call it a phenomenon of paradox. Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s animated by a desire to understand the paradoxes of that time—of a multitudinous America that contains both Barack Obama’s election and Trayvon Martin’s murder. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The resulting book is a fascinating paradox: brief in span yet symphonic in scope, all-encompassing yet vivid in its specifics. Julie Otsuka's novel of Japanese picture brides 2011-09-15T19:18:04Z “It’s a paradox for a health food store to be cool,” said Jason Widener, a vice president at Erewhon. How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Harder-to-read fonts promote better learning, according to psychologists who call this paradox “disfluency.” Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z This is one of the central paradoxes of the book: The church provides coherence and connections, but it’s also harsh and unyielding, imposing outside values on the Cherokee community. Review | In Kelli Jo Ford’s remarkable ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ the maternal bond is unbreakable 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z To that extent, silence here functions as a metonym for the wider Christian paradox of engagement with and withdrawal from the world. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z Few creatures have inspired so much study yet remain so cryptic, a paradox that zoologists call “the eel question.” Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The paradox is that this narrative is not only questionable but also unnecessary. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z Yet that paradox has also provided the backbone for enough movies to make the cinema of alcoholism its own genre. ‘The Tender Bar’: A Tale of Drinking That Ducks Alcoholism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Both religious leaders respond to Perry with academic formality, but Franzen hears the agonizing paradox in his question. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z And this, even more than the exchange of a death for a life, is the most uncomfortable paradox of “The Heart”: What devastates one group of people thoroughly intoxicates another. Review: ‘The Heart’ Offers Portraits in the Race to an Organ Transplant 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It is the paradox and the challenge of great fiction: that it finds a way to express, in the flawed constraints of language, that which cannot be expressed. Rafael Ygelesias' 'Wisdom of Perversity' works its way under the skin 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Lykke Li is an interesting paradox: the more successful she becomes, the more she is drawn to her darker side. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z From the concluding lines of his essay on Coates, “The Afro-Pessimist Temptation”: “Black life is about the group. . . . This remains a fundamental paradox in the organization of everyday life for a black person.” Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z From a food standpoint, Puerto Rico represents a twisted paradox. Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Nesbit is brilliant in those moments, and captures a paradox of historical writing — that it’s in the invention and improvisation that the past feels most pressing and most real. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z As a subject of interest, Cubism presents a paradox of sorts. Met Founds Research Institute Centered on Lauder’s Cubist Gift 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z For the moment, all paradoxes were subsumed in the spectacle. Music Review: Waters Points ‘The Wall’ Toward Abuse of Power 2012-07-07T13:03:25Z Ultimately, out of the paradox of the unknown comes the surprise of our future. What Tom Petty's "Straight Into Darkness" teaches us about uncertainty 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “Shrimp is a huge paradox because, by nature of its biology, it should be sustainable,” Mr. Greenberg said. What Are We Supposed to Think About Shrimp? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As with all of Swallow's work, it's a riff on the paradoxes of the still life, fixing perishable earthly delights forever and celebrating the joys of being alive while warning that all things must pass. Artist of the week 122: Ricky Swallow 2011-01-19T17:38:52Z It’s also the project that revealed a creative paradox: Sometimes what an artist needs to become even more of herself is a little help from her friends. How Flock of Dimes Found Herself (With a Little Help From Her Friends) 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z University of Washington classics professor Blondell explores the paradoxes and ambiguities surrounding the story of Helen, an enduring myth about the destructive power of beauty. NW books: The evolution of Seattle’s gay community 2013-05-13T21:18:06Z The paradox of dealing playfully with a subject that is so taboo is that it’s easy to slide into safe comic clichés. Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z The paradox is that those paintings represent the era when, Mr. Elderfield said, “de Kooning becomes de Kooning.” De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z How unexpected: There were two paradoxes that were illustrated over and over. A solo traveler learns about the world — and herself — after nearly a year abroad 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z "It's a strange paradox – but a very American one." Scarlett Johansson wins defamation case against French novelist 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The holiday is full of paradox: sacred and secular, giving and gorging, loving others and suffering them. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z However, as Conor Dougherty shows in “Golden Gates,” his study of the housing shortage plaguing San Francisco, America’s most prosperous city, the Bay Area is beset by hypocritical homeowners and the paradoxes of progressivism. Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “Sometimes there are more paradoxes in good writing that are revealed about the person than they might consider.” For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z The title refers to Moravec’s paradox, the discovery that we can teach machines to reason and play chess — but not to master toddler-level sensorimotor skills encoded in the human brain through evolution. Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s a paradox as old as art, and one that “Cyrano,” a new screen musical based on Edmond Rostand’s French-class chestnut, embraces with a risky ardor. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Therein lies the paradox of the fair: The old is more refreshing than the new. Art in Review: PRINT FAIR: International Fine PrintDealers Association 2011-11-03T21:36:19Z To describe Wood as a paradox might be almost as much of a cliche as to call her a national treasure. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z Poets write elegies, often, for other poets, but there is a paradox: the very figure whose sympathetic attention to their work allowed the work to flourish is now gone. The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z As is to be expected, the museum explains its goal in pleasantly opaque artspeak: they seek to “reveal the energy that inhabits these artists, but also their questioning, their ambiguities or their paradoxes.” Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow 2010-06-15T12:00:00Z There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z In that sense, Keanu Reeves is a koan: a paradox that confounds all reason. Review: In John Wick, Keanu Reeves is Back Up to Speed 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “The stuff I do is a type of long-form autobiography,” he said, with his usual attention to paradox, “but the starting place is not me.” Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Debate prep has to carry off a seeming paradox — a marriage between premeditation and person, so that a well-crafted comeback seems intrinsic to the candidate and off the cuff. What should you look for in the Democratic debates? Ask the man who prepped Gore and Kerry. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z To enter this masterpiece is to be captivated by the paradox of that tragic courage and to become invested in Oates’s search for some semblance of atonement, secular or divine. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Part of the beauty of Sullivan’s diaries is how they reckon with emotional paradoxes. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z And she remains a polarizing figure among gamers, a paradox regarded as either a digital pinup girl or a feminist role model — or sometimes both. Girl Power? For Lara Croft, It’s a Complicated Legacy 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z It also means that she accepts even the cruelest paradoxes, like the fact that Mr. Garrido, after invading and exploiting her body to his heart’s content, would then politely allow her privacy for washing up. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z The paradox of this Gethsemane moment is that while it evokes the threat of failure, it confirms the programme's success. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z With the trio matching Kelela’s careful touch, the first words to float off the singer’s lips presented another little aesthetic paradox: “Falling into the sky.” Perspective | Kelela has a song in her head. Do you hear it, too? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It is a paradox, then, that the final addition of a living and breathing human being actually serves as a buzzkill. Theater Review: Fleur Elise Noble and Puppets in Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-15T23:15:56Z “Contestants may want to keep in mind,” he writes, “that the paradox of liberty within imprisonment is used by Wordsworth in his sonnet about the sonnet form, ‘Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room.’” ArtsBeat: The American Scholar Crowdsources a Sonnet 2014-05-06T16:06:17Z Oddly, that works — paradox is the core of this Fox comedy’s off-kilter appeal. Television: In Fox?s ?Glee,? It?s the Attitude That?s the Showstopper 2010-04-09T18:08:00Z Atlanta hosting the Super Bowl, however, creates an undeniable paradox. Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The clumsy foreshadowing notwithstanding, the scene’s anticlimactic nature exposes a fundamental paradox of the show: The stakes of the series’ very first scene were possibly too high, and thus desensitizing. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 6: Walk, Talk ... Duck! 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z That, in a sense, is the permanent paradox of A Chorus Line: it hymns the individuals who are finally turned into figures of glittering anonymity. A Chorus Line – review 2013-02-20T14:59:00Z There are odd contradictions and paradoxes in “The Lord Chandos Letter.” Perspective | There’s no hope for America unless we can pity ourselves 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The dispute over Winston’s guilt illustrates a paradox many anti-sexual-assault activists face: The government and university adjudication systems they’re expected to draw evidence from are also often the objects of their criticism. “The Hunting Ground” filmmakers on why sexual assault is treated differently from other crimes: “Were you drunk when you claim the television was stolen?” 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z And yet his ear for the painful paradoxes of love is already fully in evidence. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The pieces became familiar to readers for their embrace of life’s paradoxes: They could be tender yet cruel, tragic yet funny. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z The evolving paradox of modern currency — foundational yet resting on faith — is the central theme of “Money,” a sweeping new history by Jacob Goldstein. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Add a few flying saucer chases, cook up a quickie solution to the grandfather paradox and this movie might have fallen at the intersection of “E.T.” and “Back to the Future.” ‘The Adam Project’ Review: Back Talk to the Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z My approach was to make this paradox, which itself has a Salinger-like sense of koan, central to the writing process. 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The film’s unresolved paradoxes are even encapsulated by its title, suggestive of a macho war film, which “To Die Like a Man” most definitely is not. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z His favourite trope is the paradox, and his six months in Siberia are full of contradiction. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Perhaps, if Covid-19 can be tripped up by the grandfather paradox or has a hitherto undiscovered weakness for sharp tailoring. ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z This paradox makes the movie great, but it’s also a kind of trap—an aesthetic cynicism. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z As the androids set up camp and begin to raise their artificial family, the paradoxes are ready-made. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Review: Ridley Scott Among the Androids 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z But then Mr. Taylor loves problem and paradox. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z It's such an odd dissociative paradox where I don't see myself in that, but I know it's me. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s what might be called the versatility paradox. Mike Nichols and the versatility paradox 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z So I was really wrapping my mind around this paradox of a celebratory increase of trans visibility, along with the increase of social and legislative violence. "Disclosure" director Sam Feder on the trans TV experience: "People don't know what they don't know" 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Link writes, describing the paradox of any parent with a child at risk, not knowing the proper way to turn. In 'Get in Trouble,' Kelly Link melds ordinary and bizarre 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z There is a paradox at the heart of the film. Movie Review: A Tutorial on Tolerance, With Beats and Upbeats 2011-08-11T22:18:11Z There is the fundamental paradox about the executive office that you mention in your book: The most powerful man in the world has, in fact, very limited power once a war begins. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z If this sounds paradoxical, then it is an authentically Mahlerian paradox. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2011-03-03T22:29:01Z It emerges in the paradox of our choices. Am I an unconscious tease? 2012-09-07T00:00:00Z Seriously, I just had to check that he didn’t have the word paradox somewhere in his Twitter bio. Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver: why do stars give their companies unusual names? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z It is a marital paradox, that in this conventional act, you carve your union into a memorable, distinctive entity. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The paradox, of course is that in our current narrow framework of masculinity, self-examination is almost universally discouraged. The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court 2014-04-28T23:00:00Z The paradox of Westworld is that freedom isn’t possible, because the park is monitored more closely than Disneyland and the hosts are synthetic constructs, acting on their loops. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Here, the movie’s ugly paradoxes come to the fore; here, Parker begins to shift the emphasis of the film, to the detriment of the drama and of its political and artistic ethics. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Reflecting on this “paradox of opportunity” for the outsider who becomes an insider, Brown-Nagin honors her subject by being resolutely direct and unsentimental — steely, if you will. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z You mention that “one of the most difficult paradoxes in Hunter’s character was the presence of both a strong, genuine caring for others, and a profound self-centeredness.” Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The pages are populated with lovely colour pictures and stylish paradoxes; lucid dreams, mirages, echoes, bubbles, mirror images and more are explored with a pleasantly provocative insistence on multiplying difficulties. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z Samaha and his mother continue to love and support each other, but in some ways she exemplifies the paradoxes that Bulosan puzzled over nearly eight decades before. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z For a few hundred fortunate listeners, Hersh achieved that mysterious paradox in the art of music, which exists only in time: He made time stop. Review: Hersh recital opens Olympic Music Festival season 2010-07-04T18:03:00Z A child’s perspective mingles freely with the poet’s mature voice, both baffled by the paradoxes of so much beauty and so much destruction. Poet Dunya Mikhail fled Iraq — but still carries home with her 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z "Inkwells of light" and "the rose that becomes a route" suggest explosions: the paradox is that they produce illumination. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z The great paradox that Sorkin offers is that Jobs created a machine that was meant to unleash creativity—but only on Jobs’s terms. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Consider these works, then, as attempts to wrestle with the paradox of the Obama years, and particularly the false triumphalism of some new, supposedly “post-racial” order. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z As always, every social wisdom contains its paradox. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z That's the paradox facing Flight of the Conchords, "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody act", as they used to call themselves before their hit sitcom and now tour of Britain's enormo-domes. Flight of the Conchords 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z For all the light that is beaming down now on Black artists, Black culture in America continues to be afflicted by a paradox. Perspective | The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s this paradox that Amazon Prime India has taken on in its newest original series, “Made in Heaven.” An Indian TV Show Points the Way for a New Generation 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z One of the paradoxes of Colette’s life of letters is that it begins in captivity, with Willy literally locking her in a room. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z But in addition, it arrives at a time when we have a paradox in the black community: we have the best of times, and we have the worst of times. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z His motivation — a deep commitment to Buddhist service — is clear, or at least as clear as Zen paradox allows. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “Extant” is both suspenseful and quite silly, a paradox that may be explained by its provenance. ‘Extant’ Stars Halle Berry as a Space Traveler With a Secret 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But he argued that hip-hop’s paradoxes shouldn’t keep the culture from earning recognition from vaunted institutions such as the Kennedy Center. Q-Tip is ready to be the Kennedy Center’s ‘provocateur in residence’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z These are exuberant exercises in rhetoric, full of paradoxes and historical fabrications, sweeping the reader along with a kind of facetious indifference to the standards of rational argument. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z His first collection, "The Ecstasy of Influence," revealed that his nonfiction follows the trajectory of his fiction — that is, toward nuance, paradox and what he calls “apertures.” Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “Results” is something of a paradox: a straightforward movie that reveals itself by stealth and indirection. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Ligeti work, used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” develops something of a paradox, a sort of static polyphony. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z This paradox is not lost on Adès or his collaborator in the recital, pianist Gloria Cheng, who both sat down for tea on a recent afternoon. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The paradox is that the "historical novel", in its myriad forms, need not necessarily pay much heed to history. The Edinburgh literature festival that could change history 2013-04-11T15:28:06Z The admission, with its implication that he very much tried, is telling, given Johns’s obsession with replicating everything, and his evident fascination with the paradoxes at the heart of sameness and difference. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The paradox of the current situation is that while Europe is in financial crisis, the American economy is stalled and many midrange fashion brands are struggling, the top of the market is still relatively unscathed. Zegna Hires Designer From YSL 2012-09-04T18:34:56Z Mr. Garner was a genuine star but as an actor something of a paradox: a lantern-jawed, brawny athlete whose physical appeal was both enhanced and undercut by a disarming wit. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z This exhibition opens with a big statement: a case study that exposes the great American paradox of freedom and slavery. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z A paradox arises herein, and a weird one, at that. Perspective | Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Yet, in another sublime paradox, this very dramatic compression and abstraction renders the remarkable cast’s performances all the more powerful. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z He’s from the District, but Wale currently resides in a fog of paradoxes. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z These are the very paradoxes of Macdonald’s prose — its lightness and force. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z And now to the paradoxes and puzzles of this Royal season. Review: The Royal Ballet Returns to New York With ‘The Dream’ 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The paradox of that choice is that his death would be meaningless, whereas his voice in the novel seems so meaningful. Review: ‘The Dream of My Return,’ by Horacio Castellanos Moya 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z It's a paradox of being a film makeup artist that one seeks to make the work invisible while also wanting it to be recognized. Makeup artist Bill Corso works hard to keep it real in 'Foxcatcher' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But, even though the songs are now foregrounded, the central paradox of the story remains unresolved. The Bodyguard 2012-12-06T00:40:52Z It also examines her uneasy acceptance of the feminist movement, a paradox given her trailblazing career. A new exhibit casts legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham as an accidental feminist trailblazer 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z But the dual use added a frisson of paradox — and human nature — to all those empty mirrored halls and gold-encrusted ceilings. Impossible to Forget: Caserta, Italy 2011-01-07T21:00:28Z A movie of icy dread, “The Innocents” unnervingly explores how children can be both uncorrupted and cruel, a paradox that can have deep emotional repercussions that linger well past the playground years. In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “They humanize the moral paradox of slavery and racial oppression in a land based on the ideals of the Declaration of Independence,” he wrote in a 1986 essay. Award-winning Civil War historian Stephen Oates dies at 85 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And it’s a paradox especially with “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” a work in which — more than in any other by Shakespeare — the wordplay is the thing. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z Through low doors of gnarled timber, each guarded by a trusted monk in a burgundy cowl, Likir’s shrines achieve the curious paradox of being colorful and foreboding all at once. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one The Boss’s new autobiography, “Born to Run,” ought at its heart to penetrate and lay bare this mystery housed in a paradox. Richard Ford Reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This book is a delight, even after you notice the paradox at its heart. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z She unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. The Carpetbagger: At Sundance, a Lot of James Franco and Other Experiments 2012-11-29T21:00:40Z Can you talk about the paradoxes in your film? Director on "Huda's Salon" recruiting Palestinian women for Secret Service: This is still happening 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Within our success as a nation and a global economy lies a paradox. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z That paradox has drawn the attention of psychologists for several decades now. Feel the burn: why do we love chilli? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z He seems a little young to understand the concept of “paradox.” Perspective | Why won’t my 5-year-old let me help him? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The paradox of Ai’s art is that he is more interested in telling us what we should think about than he is in demonstrating how we should think about it. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z No. The paradox of raising a teen is that, as much as it seems like she doesn’t want anything to do with you, she wants and need you to connect with her. Perspective | Am I an awful parent for not trying to engage my teen in conversation in the car? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Plus, according to some studies, the “obesity paradox” means that people with a BMI of between 30 and 35 have a better chance of surviving a range of common diseases than those who are thinner. Optimism, friendship and tidy socks – the secret to living to 100 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The puzzles, paradoxes and mysteries are what keep it alive. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z And therein lies the paradox – and for me, the problem – of “Chimerica.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Hard-Boiled in ‘Chimerica’ 2013-06-25T16:39:52Z We are prepared to acknowledge the pathos and the paradox of her condition, which is a version of K’s own. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z There are some interesting paradoxes clinging to this project. Movie Review: ‘Samsara,’ a Documentary Directed by Ron Fricke 2012-08-23T22:26:32Z |
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